Clonmel on a 'cliff edge' because of drugs, Policing Committee hears

Half of Co. Tipperary’s drug-dealing detections this year, up to October 3, were made in the Clonmel district

Independent TD Mattie McGrath said that he is not in favour of Tipperary sharing a chief superintendent with Co. Clare because of the distance to Tipperary from Ennis. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The town of Clonmel is on a “cliff edge” because of drugs, the Tipperary Joint Policing Committee has been told.

At a meeting of the committee on Friday, it emerged that half of the county’s drug-dealing detections this year, up to October 3, were made in the Clonmel district. Clonmel accounted for 45 of the county’s 90 drug-dealing detections, and for more than half of the county’s detections of drugs for personal use.