Dublin GAA star Philly McMahon says he would decriminalise heroin in Ireland. Telling children not to take drugs doesn't work, he claims, going on to back that view up with some very strong, personal evidence.
"My parents told John not to go on drugs - and he still took drugs," Philly said of his big brother John who died in 2012, aged 31 from the effect of his heroin addiction, in London where he was living.
"He wanted to come home. We [Dublin] were in the All-Ireland semi-final against Mayo in 2012 and if we won that he wanted to come home to the All-Ireland Final. But we got beaten. He died in September which is the month we would have played the All-Ireland Final. He died September 7.
Source: Barry Egan, Irish Independent, 30/01/2017
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