‘Youths disrespect themselves by taking drugs made by criminals’

A judge expressed his alarm at young people’s disrespect for themselves taking drugs manufactured by criminals in a sentencing hearing against three people on charges related to supplying the N-bomb drug.

The investigation took place against the background of 18-year-old Alex Ryan’s death after he sniffed the synthetic drug at a party in Greenmount, Cork, at the beginning of this year.

Three people face sentencing on different drugs charges in the case.