Drug injecting centre due in early 2024

Prof Eamon Keenan joined a delegation from Cork City Council and Gardaí to Lisbon recently where they observed the operation of fixed and mobile injecting facilities.

The long-awaited pilot drug injecting centre in Dublin should be operational by early next year, the HSE boss over the project has said.

Professor Eamon Keenan said they would have to go back to the Department of Health for more money as building costs have increased since the previous tender for the project was done some five years ago.