Street brawls in Cork prompt renewed calls for supervised injection facility

Lord Mayor and the head of the HSE's regional drugs services respond to spate of antisocial behaviour on St Patrick's Street

The street brawl that erupted on St Patrick's Street in Cork around 6pm on Monday is just the latest in a series of antisocial behaviour incidents on the main streets of Cork City. File picture

Ireland’s first supervised injection centre for intravenous drug users should be piloted in Cork, civic leaders and addiction experts have suggested.

Lord Mayor Colm Kelleher said the delivery of a medically-supervised injection facility (MSIF) on Leeside should not be dependent on the delivery of Dublin’s proposed centre, which has been stalled by planning challenges.