Drugs charity providing more crack pipes in Limerick than in Dublin

The crack cocaine crisis has now reached crisis levels in Limerick and is emerging in towns such as Ennis, Thurles and Kilrush

Derelict houses in St Mary's Park, Limerick which has a very serious crack cocaine problem.

A CHARITY helping people in drug addiction has been providing more sterile pipes to inhale crack cocaine in Limerick than in Dublin, as the Treaty City finds itself in the eye of a deadly drug storm.

Chief executive of the Ana Liffey Drug Project, Tony Duffin, said it has provided 1,433 sterile crack pipes in Dublin since 2020, while around 4,600 have been distributed in Limerick over the same period.