Cocaine Destroying Rural Ireland

There are a variety of dealers in different areas. My college campus and some others would have dealers who come from middle class areas. Their suppliers who are well known around the world are never mentioned by any "patriots". It's easier to target travellers and immigrants.

Well we can see why you're crying about the new hate speech laws coming in. Clearly you've got an issue with travellers.

I supply pubs on a daily basis and when I talk to the owners they all say it cocaine is out of control, probably the biggest problem they have. Security needed on quieter nights too so has increased costs.

I'm always amazed at how prevalent cocaine use is in Ireland when you see how much it costs. I'd have thought the price of keeping a habit going would be enough to deter most people, apparently not. It's not like it's replacing drink either, people are paying for it on top of that.

Like drink there is always money for drugs. Cocaine is crazy expensive though, over 100 quid for a bag like.

There were kids from the school he's getting work experience in, at the event including one of my own, he's not a good role model

Most teachers are definitely not a role model for kids.

when I went to national school in 80s in rural Ireland - our headmaster was a chainsmoker and whenever he ran out of cigarettes he sent one of the class down to the shop to buy him cigarettes.

he wouldn’t get away with that today.

And when the parish priest would visit the school - the two of them would sit at the front of the class smoking away and asking us about the lives of the saints.

It's taken more seriously when rural is mentioned, the media darlings. Same with rural crime, even though urban crime is more common when you put the word rural in to the equation it's seen as more important and a bigger deal. Always been that way in Ireland.

I doubt ultra conservative people like yourself have much experience in the real world though or meet different kinds of people often, if your posts are anything to go by. I can't think of anyone I know who hasn't tried drugs at some stage in their lives, it's just normal nowadays, it has been for a long time in Ireland.

What next? Somebody will be murdered, and then where are we? Drive by shootings in the night, it'll be like Boys n the Hood. And then they'll have hoes selling their wares in the middle of the street and the pimps will be using crack cocaine to keep the whores under control.”

Social workers are the answer?

It seems like social workers are the answer to a lot of problems in some quarters.

Ultimately the Irish prison system is and has been at breaking point for decades.

Our population has grown and organised criminality has grown with it, mostly centred around the supply of drugs. Our prison capacity hasn't grown in tandem however. It needs to.

Serious crime needs to be dealt with properly, currently we have thousands of criminals with insane amounts of previous convictions walking the streets.

The answer isn't locking up the clowns taking the drugs but there's currently no deterrent to getting involved in serious criminality, most of which centres around the supply of drugs. We need to be locking up the suppliers and throwing away the keys.

Ireland has created some of the most wanted drugs cartels in the entire world, precisely because we don't punish these people here in this country.

We watched these scumbags killing each other in their gang wars and as this thread alludes to, you can still get your hands on Coke anywhere in this country at any time.

Social workers aren't going to stop this, we'll never get rid of drugs altogether but we need to stop the unfettered access we currently have from being viewed as the norm and that can only be achieved by building more prisons and handing out serious sentences to those guilty of pushing these drugs once and for all.

So? I'm from the city, gone from it, that don't give me the right to slag it, or it's people off, like they don't matter