Jack Downey's parents brought his friends in to see damage drugs can do

"They all saw Jack tubed up and wired up. There was a shock factor," his father said. Jack died three days after taking what is believed to have been ecstasy/MDMA.

Jack Downey's parents brought his friends in to see damage drugs can do

The parents of a young man who died after taking drugs at a music festival earlier this month have revealed how they brought his friends into his hospital room to see what the illegal substances had done to their son.

Jack Downey (19) died three days after taking what is believed to have been ecstasy/MDMA at the Indiependence festival in Mitchelstown, Cork over the August Bank Holiday Weekend.

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