Families struggling with addiction hit by lack of funding of successful support network

Sisters Jackie and Gwen McKenna run the Family Addiction Support Network based in Dundalk but operating all across the four counties of the North East — Louth, Meath, Cavan, and Monaghan. Picture: Moya Nolan

The author of a Government-ordered report into the gang and drug crisis in Drogheda has said he was “very disappointed” that a local project working with families hit by addiction and drug-related intimidation faces closure because of a funding crisis.

Vivian Geiran, whose report, Drogheda: Creating a Bridge to a Better Future, was published last March, said the Dundalk-based Family Addiction Support Network (FASN) was a “very impressive” group doing “hugely important work”.