Devastating effects of drugs and anti-social behaviour prompts community response in North Tipperary town.
Hundreds of people are expected to attend a public meeting in Roscrea tonight where locals, determined to rid their town of drug dealers, have rallied together to highlight the “cancer” that has hit their community.
The devastating effects of drugs and anti-social behaviour has prompted a major community response in the North Tipperary town, where its feared an emerging drugs culture has claimed many young lives.
Last week, anti-drugs graffiti was spray painted on to the main road signs leading into the town, an indication of the tension felt in the area.
Like many towns in rural Ireland, Roscrea, a designated Irish heritage town, has been hit by large scale unemployment in recent years.
Tragically, there has been a number of suicides in the town, some of which are believed to have been drug-related.
“What we call our cancer has hit the town. Drugs are our cancer and this has hit the town big time in the last two years and we are not prepared to put up with it,” said local woman Marie Warren, who is passionate about her native town.
Source: Irish times, 28/07/2014
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