Coolmine celebrates 50 years of changing lives through drug recovery

President Michael D Higgins with Coolmine CEO Pauline McKeown and Coolmine Lodge chairman Alan Connolly as the President visited Coolmine Lodge where the charity marked its 50th year supporting communities with recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. Picture: Robbie Reynolds

Some 15 years on, it is still difficult for Bronagh to admit that she had put drugs before her own son.

Trauma she herself suffered in childhood led her to take substances to cope.