'This is real': Retired Assistant Commissioner warns we must prepare for fentanyl surge

Former Garda Assistant Commissioner Pat Leahy warned that a fentanyl drug scource is on its way and we had better prepare for it. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Fentanyl will ravage Irish communities unless we prepare for it now, according to a former Garda Assistant Commissioner.

Pat Leahy, who was former Assistant Commissioner for the Dublin area, also predicted that the synthetic drug is likely to spread more quickly than heroin did.