Ireland is 'awash with drugs' with people in more affluent areas funding organised crime gangs, Ciara Kelly has claimed.presenter was speaking as the Health Research Broad reported the highest-ever number of people in drug treatment – with a continued increase in cocaine use, especially among women.drug treatment for cocaine, rising from 284 cases in 2017 to 1,387 cases in 2023.
"But I got the impression also from what they were saying that they were using much harder drugs than that as well. "For some people that means we should legalise it – I don't actually subscribe to that notion at all.'Fairtrade coffee and drugs'"The drugs people are taking in their nice houses in Ranelagh and where-have-you are all coming in through the Kinahans and the Hutches," she said.