'You can’t be naïve to think it is still just cocaine or ecstasy like it was before. It’s a whole new ballgame'

Cork senator Nicole Ryan has renewed her warning about the availability of synthetic drugs ahead of the 10th anniversary of her brother's death

18-year-old Alex Ryan from Millstreet Co Cork died in January 2016 after taking a synthetic drug called an N-bomb. His 10th anniversary Mass takes place next Friday. 

“You can’t be naïve to think it is still just cocaine or ecstasy like it was before. It’s a whole new ballgame."

That is the advice to parents and communities from Nicole Ryan, whose brother Alex died 10 years ago after he took a deadly designer drug at a house party in Cork City.