A Circuit Court Judge in Letterkenny has issued a stark message about what he perceives to be a serious drug problem in Donegal.
Judge John O’Hagan, commenting during the sentencing of 36-year-old Letterkenny man Vincent Whoriskey to 18 months imprisonment for drug-related offences, said: “It’s a terrible problem, particularly for young people in Donegal if they don’t kill themselves in cars they kill themselves with drugs.
“Some people seem to think of drugs as recreational as having a pint but the courts say differently and the law says it is is an offence to sell drugs to feed your own habit and deal with debts.”
Queried as to the extent of the drugs issue, Garda Brady said ‘there is a lot of cocaine’ and noted that last weekend, which was the busiest weekend of the year in the county, that ‘there was enormous amounts of it around town’.