HSE to create safe space for drug users at festivals amid 'worrying trends'

Walking on Cars performing at Indiependence in  2018 in Mitchelstown, Cork. Indiependence is one of the festivals being targeted by the HSE for drug use this summer. Picture: Kieran Frost

HSE teams are targeting three music festivals this summer to spread harm reduction advice to drug users amid “very worrying trends” at the drugs in circulation.

The first event is the Life dance music festival in Westmeath this weekend, followed by Indiependence in Mitchelstown, Cork, in July and a third event, yet to be determined, later in the summer.