Easier to get heroin, cocaine in Ireland than other EU countries

Some 43% of Irish people think it would be easy to get cocaine within 24 hours and, perhaps more surprisingly, 28% say the same about heroin. File picture

Irish people are more likely to think it is easy to get their hands on heroin or cocaine than residents of any other country in the EU.

A Europe-wide survey also reveals that Irish people are the least likely to believe that an outright ban on the substances should continue and the most likely to say they should be regulated instead.