Communities fight back against the drugs trade

The assistant garda commissioner has pleaded with youths not to get involved in the drugs trade at any level. We must provide initiatives to help, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Gary Lawlor and Karl Ducque spent six months “building trust” with a group of eight youths engaged in public drug dealing, drug use, and antisocial behaviour. Their initiative, Targeted Response to Youth (Try), is a pilot project running in St Teresa’s Gardens, a flat complex in Dublin’s south inner city.