By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY festival-goers attending this weekend’s Electric Picnic festival are being warned about potentially lethal high-strength ecstasy tablets that are circulating. The Health Service Executive (HSE) issued the warning following an incident where four men in their 20’s were rushed to hospital in Kerry last weekend, for what is suspected to be ecstasy
THE heartbroken parents of a teenager who died after taking an illegal substance at a music festival have urged young people not to experiment with drugs. Elaine Downey, who is from Callan, told RTÉ’s Marian Finucane programme today: “I would have never have thought it would happen to me. I would never have thought my […]
GARDAI arrested a man after they seized cannabis and ecstasy worth €2,000 during a planned raid on a house in rural Kilkenny. Members of the Kilkenny-Carlow Garda Division Drugs Unit backed by local detectives swooped on the property in the Mile Bush area of Rosbercon on Tuesday night. One man was arrested in the operation. […]