A line too far: Cocaine at school dances

Last week’s grotesque discoveries, a casual murder at a student party and several crime-related shootings, must finally disabuse Ireland of the of the notion that this is an idyllic backwater immune to drug-related crime or violence.

Those harrowing reality checks, however, seem to almost pale, albeit it on a different plane, when set against the report that teenagers budget for cocaine along with a dress or suit for their end-of-school balls.