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Over 1,000 people show up to anti-drugs meeting in Roscrea

The attendance accounts for 20% of the town.

OVER 1,000 PEOPLE showed up last night to a public meeting on the issue of drug dealing in Roscrea.

The meeting was the second on the issue in a week, with last week’s meeting featuring a mass protest outside the local Garda station.

Locals say that they are concerned at the rising levels of heroin use and dealing in the town.

The meeting heard from parents of drug abusers and families of people who have taken their own lives because of drug abuse.

The attendance accounts for one in every five people in Roscrea and locals told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that they wanted a stronger Garda presence on the streets and more supports for drug rehabilitation. The meeting was told that rising unemployment had exacerbated the problem.

The local Superintendent Bob Noonan encouraged people to get in contact with gardaí if they have any information, but told people not to take the law into their own hands.

Fine Gael TD Noel Coonan was asked to lobby for extra resources for the town. He said that the restarting of Garda recruitment was a “positive sign”.

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    Mute ivy mike
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 8:48 PM

    I remember the irish media had me giving every white haired man the beady eye before he was caught

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    Mute David Lynch
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 10:01 PM

    i watched a programme on him and his gang! whitey killed anyone who he suspected on being an informer, he always preached about loyalty! He was himself an informer for the FBI.

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    Mute john ferguson
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 9:20 PM

    Seems like a nice old guy. Can’t imagine him doing anything he’s being accused of.

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    Mute Lump Hammer
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 8:54 PM

    Champion & Hero

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    Mute Fagan fagan
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 9:24 PM

    @ lump
    If your into the sort of person who imports drugs , sells them , kills people, intimidates , extorts business owners and is giving the heads up by the FBI I can understand how he is a hero to you
    coming from a person who spent considerable years in the states he is a embarrassment to the Irish community just ask anyone in the wood side/sunny side end of queens NY they will tell you he is a w****r

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    Mute Fagan fagan
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 8:55 PM

    Pleading the 5th
    He was a FBI rat I wonder if they told him keep that shut

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    Mute Fagan fagan
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 9:49 PM

    Correction by fagan
    You actually have to take the stand before you plead the 5 th
    All else I said I stand by

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    Mute liam grennan
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 11:22 PM

    The FBI claimed he was a rat. Very easy to do and he on the run. They made it up

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    Mute Fagan fagan
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    Aug 3rd 2013, 12:08 AM

    @ Liam
    Ffs son the dogs in the street knows the connection between him& the Feds

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    Mute Ossi Fritsche
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 10:02 PM

    After all the defence witnesses were slammed by the prosecution last week.

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    Mute James Troy
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    Aug 2nd 2013, 10:07 PM

    Ah woodside, is Sean Og’s still there.

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    Mute Fagan fagan
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    Aug 3rd 2013, 12:05 AM

    @ James
    Home 10 years now couldn’t tell ya
    To be honest all I can remember is the 7 train lol

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    Mute Fagan fagan
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    Aug 3rd 2013, 12:19 AM

    @ James
    Do remember 5 am going for a fry in the stop in down from dillons pub before the block burned down
    Had the Morrison but jaysus we built that city in our droves during the 90′s

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    Aug 3rd 2013, 1:10 AM

    Awful headline, he doesn’t have to testify, that’s absolutely his right under American law, and it can’t be used against him.
    Obviously juries do hold it against the accused, and the media tend to do the same, as they have done nothing this case.

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    Mute jason bourne
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    Aug 3rd 2013, 5:06 AM

    It’s not an awful headline, what the hell are you on about you plank, everyone knows you don’t have to take the stand when you are an accused, that’s not just confined to American law.. It’s a valid headline given what bugler is accused of so don’t let on you know more about law than other folk cause you haven’t a clue

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    Mute Richie Woods
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    Aug 3rd 2013, 12:46 AM

    Embarrassment to the Irish ! Our politicians do that for us, we don’t need a yank to do it for us.

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    Mute Amaru Lee Murphy
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    Aug 3rd 2013, 7:48 AM

    Moral dilemma; he cannot accept to be seen as a rat, yet he misses out on immunity!

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    Aug 3rd 2013, 7:45 AM

    Probably important to point out the Jeremiah O’Sullivan was not just any US Attorney – but the US Attorney General & Head of Strikeforce

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    Mute Thomas Murray
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    Aug 3rd 2013, 12:02 AM

    Got what he deserves. Sk**.

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    Aug 3rd 2013, 3:36 AM

    I have had an opportunity living there and meeting allot of folks of his time, South Boston is an amazing place with the shamrock in pride but the silence in Southy was because of this man in a very dangerous times with gangs on every side of it and funny they say the Robin Hood of Southy weird

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