Cork City retailers remove foil-wrapped products from shelves after surge in heroin use

One shop has also stopped wrapping deli products in tinfoil after it emerged that heroin users were using it to prepare the drug for consumption.

Shop notice stating 'WE NO LONGER SELL ANIMAL BARS' at Whelton's Centra store, Bandon Rd, Cork City. Picture: Larry Cummins

Several shopkeepers in Cork City have taken foil-wrapped products off their shelves after a surge in visible heroin dealing and consumption in the city centre.

And the owner of one busy city Centra store, who has taken a popular kids' chocolate bar off his shelves, said he has told his staff to stop wrapping deli products in tinfoil after months of harassment from heroin users who have been using it to prepare the drug for consumption.