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Sharp increase for drug and alcohol support services in Midlands - Merchants Quay Ireland
21 Oct 2021
7.6k
9
Lack of shower and toilet facilities exacerbating mental health issues for Dublin's rough sleepers
2 Apr 2021
36.9k
45
'A forward step': Former Assistant Garda Commissioner on Ireland's first supervised injecting facility
2 Feb 2020
14.1k
22
Council street crews called out hundreds of times to clean up discarded needles on Dublin streets
4 Jan 2020
17.3k
33
Just two people wrote to city planners saying they were in favour of the new supervised injecting facility
3 Jan 2020
14.4k
47
'This will save lives': Planning permission granted for Ireland's first injecting centre
24 Dec 2019
35.8k
81
'It’s terrifying rough sleeping. I stay up all night, lying in a doorway'
24 Oct 2019
14.8k
17
Merchants Quay to appeal injecting centre refusal to An Bord Pleanála
8 Aug 2019
9.6k
32
Former drugs minister says injecting centre plan has 'been allowed to die' by government
27 Jul 2019
11.6k
21
Dublin City Council refuses planning permission for Ireland's first injecting centre
26 Jul 2019
22.0k
122
Gardaí refuse to provide policing plan needed for injecting centre until planning permission is granted
4 Jul 2019
10.2k
33
Dublin's first injecting centre delayed further as Merchants Quay needs more time to address planning concerns
9 May 2019
9.6k
43
'I owe this place my life': Inside Dublin's only charity offering free hot Sunday dinners to the homeless
31 Mar 2019
20.6k
20
'We've seen people die, people beaten up horrifically': This primary school doesn't want an injecting centre 300m from its front door
16 Mar 2019
43.5k
39
736 people died directly as a result of drugs in 2016
8 Mar 2019
10.5k
49
'We are seeing people who have a home, but they can’t afford the heating or the food to cook'
7 Mar 2019
20.1k
38
Planned supervised injection centre may not open in 2019, new Merchants Quay CEO says
15 Dec 2018
16.7k
35
'I started taking drugs when I was 12 ... it was just seen as a cool thing to do'
29 Sep 2018
22.9k
22
Homeless and addiction charity says 'Ireland is facing a deepening social crisis'
14 Sep 2018
17.0k
49
'I used to have to wash myself in a bookies every morning because there would be needles all over the hostel'
8 Sep 2017
14.6k
20
"When I was 15 I found €3,500 worth of heroin on the ground... and that was it for me"
14 Aug 2016
42.2k
57
Drug use outside Dublin continues to grow, says report
6 Sep 2013
5.1k
40