Gardaí arrest suspected distributor and local supplier over ‘highly dangerous’ party drug

Gardaí have arrested both the suspected distributor and local supplier of a “highly dangerous” drug that has left an 18-year-old man fighting for his life in Cork City.

Gardaí and health experts yesterday moved to clarify that the drug was not 2C-B, as was initially thought but a derivative called 25I-NBOMe.

The man was one of six people rushed to hospital early on Tuesday after suffering serious effects at a house party on St Patrick’s Terrace on Green Street.