‘Put more Garda resources’ into tackling Limerick drug dealing

Activists welcome the sentencing of a cocaine dealer who operated from a family grocery store in Limerick but call for an increased Garda presence and improved social services
‘Put more Garda resources’ into tackling Limerick drug dealing

TD Maurice Quinlivan: Drug dealing in St Mary’s Park, Limerick, still operates 'like a 24-hour drive through'.  Picture: Liam Burke/Press 22

Limerick activists have welcomed the sentencing last week of a cocaine dealer who operated from a family grocery store in a city estate, but want more Garda resources and better social services.

They expressed growing concerns at the spread of crack cocaine and the emergence this month of the highly dangerous synthetic opioid, nitazene, in street sedative tablets, which resulted in a number of overdoses in the Mid-West.

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