I'm a language teacher in Dublin and when people come over they fall in love with the city. They enjoy the culture, the music, the people. Some describe it as a safe haven in comparison to other cities such as Paris, Barcelona and Milan. But to me, after returning to the city after a year or so, I feel it's changed completely. It's heartbreaking to see the people of Ireland falling to addiction due to a lack of mental, physical and financial support, due to a lack of understanding, a lack of space to talk. When I go into the city centre, there's always a sense of danger within me that those around me seem oblivious to (that, or they've accepted it and found peace, which to me, is a mistake as its masking the issue). You see people lying on the floor, people overdosing, people screaming, blood on the stone pavements. It isn't Dublin. It isn't Ireland. On the night of the November riots, I stood on O'Connell Bridge and watched the bus burn and silently cried. It was watching my home burn, and we're fighting each other instead of helping one another. Then, part of me felt that this would wake people up, make those oblivious aware of how Dublin is losing it's heart. But nine months on, it seems like it's all been forgotten about and we've returned to our silent stares, our mental blockage, our ignorance of what's around us.
Bonjour je viens de regarder le reportage et lire votre commentaire c'est effarant, j'ai toujours adoré l'Irlande je n'y suis jamais allé et c'est mon délire de vouloir aller faire un voyage en Irlande( effectivement quand je lis ça....😮 ) dans les terres de ce beau pays .C'est vraiment désolant de voir toute cette merde détruire un grand peuple est un si beau pays ,comme dit quelqu'un ...la misère engendre la violence😢. Pour moi la seule et unique solution c'est l'État qui doit être intransigeant avec ces dealers . Des sanctions énormes de prison faire des saisies de matériel moto bijoux maison voiture etc.. cela permettra de financer des centres de cure et services de police ou de douane incorruptibles . Je souhaite le meilleur à ce pays d'Irlande.😊🙏
Ireland that country has good people but has a lot off drug addiction or Craig addiction. Every street they use cocaine or weed Garda maybe they are there dealer
I left ireland in 2011 to New Zealand due to the economic crisis, back then there was little to nothing cocaine issues in my local town of Drogheda. I returned in 2022 and its madness. Everyone is on the gear.
😂 You must’ve been a bit innocent. The country was awash with coke back then. So much so that it got relatively cheap and every scrote was taking it every night out. I worked nightclub security in a similar town and we got tired of catching users and dealers only to have the cops release them without charge. They couldn’t be bothered because it was rife.
This isn't accurate. Drug use in Ireland has always been huge. All that's changed are the drugs taken. In the 70s and early 80s Dun Laoghaire, being a port, was considered to be the heroin capital of Europe. There were junkies all over the city. All the lanes around the city centre were full of needles. There were many pubs, snooker halls and cafés where you could score. Speed was also really big in the 80s. In the 90s there was a massive movement within the inner-city council flats to force dealers out of their communities. The rave scene and 'Celtic Tiger' introduced ecstasy and cocaine, and the new generation of clubbers started taking heroin so they could come down at the end of the night. Cocaine became huge in the 90s and 00s, like it did everywhere else. Cocaine is still really big, as is Ketamine. Ireland has always been an entry point for drugs.
Pretty accurate timelines not blown out of perspective, look at dunlaoighre now it's fine but yeah you gotta admit that the comedown from the love buzz did more harm then good to Irish society it just introduced the problem across the board,
The amount of open drug use in Dublin is crazy. Also younger people treat a line of coke the same as having a beer at this point in Ireland. It's literally everywhere.
Cops turn a blind eye. Seem to resent doing the job they’re paid to do. Justify it by saying the judges let them off. That’s like a cleaner refusing to empty the bins because people will just throw rubbish in it the next day.
@@TheKid_88why do u keep commenting this as if drug use is a good thing? U could argue that drug use is normal and morally “acceptable”, but clearly there is an issue. People are becoming addicted to garbage drugs and losing their money, health, family/friends, etc…. It’s obviously not a good thing. If the world was sensible about it, we’d have regulated it long ago. But that’s not the case. Maybe try to look at it from a different point of view, because im not really sure yours makes much sense…
I lived in Dublin in oct-dec 2023 and shared an apartment with 4 other guys. All of them used drugs regularly 😳. You can order drugs online and it’s delivered to you anywhere. On one weekend, I was assaulted by a roommate who was high in cocaine. I had to leave the apartment overnight and go to a hostel. 😢
46 years practicing dentistry showed me the long term heart effects of cocaine abuse. My cocaine addict patients current or past have changed their physiology to the point that local anesthetics do not work unless used in very high doses or they do not work at all. My one patient only stays numb for 30 minutes when I use a high dose injection that would keep a normal patient numb for 9 hours! ALL of the cocaine users had very sensitive hearts, (rapid heart beats, arrythmias), to the use of minute amounts of epinephrine in the anesthetics, (the epi keeps the anesthetic in place longer and is very helpful in pain control). A normal patient would have no rapid heart beat to these tiny quantities. Sacrificing a few hours of getting high for devastating future heart problems is ridiculous! Drug addiction is a modern form of slavery!
@@cityguard4847 He’s a dentist. These aren’t heart transplants. Why would he need to turn any patient away (beyond practical needs like being at capacity in terms of number of patients attending his practice)? Everyone needs dental work at some point in their lives, coke use or not, so his dental services are more or less non-rivalrous, unlike with organ donations.
Before I joined the Ambulance service I didn’t realise just how bad Cocaine is for the Heart, it’s frightening to see all the people on it and in 20-25 years the amount of young deaths from heart attacks and cardiac arrests will be a real shame.
The very young see it everyday, on the streets, playgrounds and in their homes. Are they going to listen to scary stories and go for abstinence? How's that working out with _something else_ literally every other animal on the planet is doing???
Yes,,, 💯,, I got out,, almost died a couple of times,,, I'm 32 months Sober now,, steady job,, money in the bank,, renewed family interaction,,,, I'm grateful and try to spread the word,,, Sobriety is Beautiful,,,
I'm not sure you actually watched the full video, or read the title. The description of the social problem prefaces the suggestion that it has become an entry point for drugs for the rest of Europe. So as much as you would like to belittle the issues of the country and lump it in with ''the rest of the world'', I think getting specific about the scope of the situation prefaces any sort of progress toward a solution.
Problem is when young people think taking it is normal and everyday use. That gets in their head but like that you want have families and continue normal life.
@@-Osiris-You don't. People "need" drugs like we "need" electricity. We simply need safer legal drugs and better education surrounding them. They don't need to be a mysterious boogeyman.
Japan is the the only asian country where drug use is limited. Everywhere else there is lot of consumption. Mostly amphetamines. See Philippines for example.
Lived in Cork from 2007 to 2014. Everyone was doing coka-kola there over the weekends in pubs. Saw ppl sniffing in front of the security in the pub in open, noone said a word. Getting wasted is/was perceived as a part of the Irish culture.
Ireland's reluctance to invest in its own defense is sad. Expecting the Gardai to battle international drug gangs is preposterous. Criminal gangs need to be fought with military assets, not police.
To be fair fighting criminal gangs is the job of police in pretty much every first world country, so i wouldnt say its preposterous. Unfortunately the irish criminal justice system seems to be doing a piss poor job.
@rafalpilat4229 Well, international drug cartels, with ships, submarines, heavy weapons and other military gear are Para military organizations, and the lightly armed civil police forces in IRL or other developed countries are not really equipped for this task. The scale and seriousness of this, seems not to be understood by Irish government officials.
@@bikeman9899 Are cartels armed with heavy weapons and submarines actually using these weapons in Ireland to threaten gardai? Can you cite a single incident where this happened in recent history?
Thank you for shining a light on this problem in Ireland. No other publication has the brass to do it. This is real journalism, something I thought had died. Thank you DW
A country with a housing shortage despite having a smaller population than it did in 1845 Economy based on being a tax Haven, for foreign tech companies A military comparable to a neighborhood watch Political system dominated by two parties
@@christianweibrecht6555 Only 10% of the workforce work in multinationals and that includes our own multinationals. Political system has had 3 main parties for many years now. What do we need a big military for? Who is going to invade us? I'm not sure you know what you're talking about on any of your points. It's not just big companies that pay the 12.5% corporation tax rate, it's every company. Even the small coffee shops and even my own 1 employee company. This tax haven nonsense has been debunked over and over. You're just too lazy to research
@@RazorMouth tax haven = you just help companies avoid taxes Apple is not going to build a factory in your country instead deploy shell companies that might employ six people
Farmers selling it in Tipp, I kid u not! Traveller's selling it all in Clonmel. All eight balls and 1/4s now. Disaster. Cops know exactly who is selling it....
That’s because we don’t have a navy capable of intercepting ships.because the criminals are smart and are using planes and submarines. We do have a very big cocaine problem here. I’m a counsellor and psychotherapist and it’s one of the things I treat a lot when everyone comes to me with addiction. I assumed it would be alcohol but a lot of my clients would be presenting with but it’s not it’s coke usage.
@@christianweibrecht6555Ireland isn't in nato because we're neutral and we don't have to meet the minimum contribution. There's a wall of nato to our right which means nato isn't that necessary.
Supply and demand, the drugs are there because the people want them. Why do the people want them? Here in the States, drug use is not usually a sign of lax security {I mean it's the well armed USA} Here people turn to drugs because they have no hope for the future, and no one cares about poor addicts
Lost many friends to drugs, and they didn't accept help either. They think it is something to be proud of and good for themselves. More awareness is required, sorry for everyone who is challenged with an addiction.
Its crazy, its not only Dublin its everywhere, people using coke like its the same as having a beer on a friday night. So many times now i've witnessed it, or been offered it by complete strangers, had an aggressive encounter with people who have taken too much of it. I don't get the obsession I've talked with friends of mine and tried to figure out what they get out of it as casual users, just seems to be a way to stay up half the night drinking in someone's house. Most of them agree its pointless but they do it anyway
You see people sniffing and rubbing their noses walking around Tesco in the middle of the day. It’s everywhere in Ireland. Urban, rural, rural towns. People dealing in broad daylight with impunity. Closing rural Garda stations in the recession let lawlessness in that will be very difficult to reverse. The expansion of the motorway network made things very easy too.
Social exclusion is a huge problem in Ireland, and systematic poverty by austerity crazed policies, by various successive governments. It is far more complex than anyone clueless Middle Class academic can imagine or comprehend. And the Drugs pandemic everywhere is just symptom of this.
The boats and planes are interesting but irrelevant. Irish people suffer greatly with self respect and self confidence due to the generational trauma from 800 years of british oppression. The Irish government has consistently prioritised profits over the wellbeing of the Irish people ever since the creation of the free state, leading to pockets of extreme deprivation and a general lack of services and supports nationwide. When you see yourself as worthless and see no way out of your situation it's a natural human response to turn to drugs to mask the pain. Learning to accept and love the true nature of yourself and the environment you exist in is key for staying away from drugs, but for many Irish people that journey begins 100m behind the starting line.
This is a massive problem all across western nations currently. Worse than it has ever been. It will contribute to our eventual collapse, so I think we all need to see it in this context, either as a user or in a position of power. Western civilization is under attack, it could fall and this is just part of what is driving this situation.
The drugs aren't the problem. Poverty and lack of education are. And I'm not just talking about the users, the people who hate them need better education too...
10yrs ago I was waiting to get a taxi to my hotel pre Uber about a year. It was a night of the all Ireland final, impossible to get a taxi, must have been offered Coke about 4-5 times in 50min
Yes but that issue is international and touches the EU which Ireland is part of so Ireland is not alone and if it is indeed an entry gate for smugling drugs into the continent I am pretty sure it will receive help from the union of 26 other country members. The EU is slow but it is quite efficient so solve common regional issues such as this, it is not hard to federate countries against drug trafficking so keep your sight bright.
Well nothing new! I lived in Dublin from 2004 to 2009 and it was already everywhere. Well amongst all others drugs and it seems so normal for the Irish to do drugs. Don't get me wrong I had an amazing time and Irish people are lovely. But I cannot imagine how this circus evolves in 15 years. It is certainly just total madness.
Yep, but unfortunately over the last few decades, almost all policies have been reactive, not pro-active. As such, it's necessary to talk about the issues, otherwise nothing will be done about them
I like the way you picked O'Connell bridge. It's blatantly everywhere in Dublin fully open mother's pushing prams smoking crack but well O'Connell bridge is at least scenic xD
47 uear old irish woman here...ive never took it and ive never even seen it be took.sooo no not everyone takes it ...only seen it the movies..but yet my life has been 😢 affected by it...
@@colors6692 what are you talking about? I'm just stating a well known fact that people in Ireland are aware of that others who don't live here may not realize. No where in my statement is there any blame.
@@davidanderson1749odd response. Although your statement doesn’t specifically blame politicians/government, you must be able to see it is easy to infer that from your statement
@@vzheyko Yes my friend. Poor neighborhoods get affected a lot with drugs decriminalization, as in there's needles everywhere in Mouraria and other poor places. Rich places become safer tho. But the poor places become worse and more violent.
@@NunoFilipe99 noo mate. Dont compare Portugal drug addition to Ireland one. I'm luso-caboverdiano living in Ireland and I can confirm that here is way worst
A non-story. In the 70s Dublin had a massive problem with heroin. Nothing has changed except the drug. The West coast of Ireland has been used for smuggling for decades. Alcohol is a far bigger problem here.
@@vzheyko Ireland is no different than any other country apart from being superior in every possible way. However, alcohol is a huge killer in Ireland and that, plus the social disturbances it causes is the problem. The main reason drugs are a problem anywhere is that they are illegal. Think about it.
Lack of prosperity is a big driver for substance abuse. With sky high rents and stagnant wages no wonder people are looking at drugs to take away the misery of living somewhere so hopeless 😒
I live about 3 kms from Darndale in a 5 bed €600K house, my point being Darndale is a mess but not because of poverty. You have a population unwilling to work to benefit from the economic boom. None of them have completed 2nd level education never mind third level. All looking for the easy money, there's not a hard days work in them. I lived in Priorswood in the 1980's for a brief time, I know the mindset. If you work hard in these communities and achieve anything then someone comes along and wrecks it or takes it off you. On top of that you have soft touch policing and a court system that fails to be effective in cracking the drug gang sub culture. Ireland has invested heavily in ships, aircraft etc but we have no one interested in joining the navy. The wages and conditions are just not competitive in a booming economic back drop. At the end of the day this 'shower' of losers has to take responsibility for being dirt and clean their own act up
@@liamo8932 Man I worked for every cent I got. Grew up in a one parent family, went down to live with my Dad in '88 in Priorswood in a council house for 3 months. Bought a house when I was 47. 2007 was devastating, don't think it was any easier than today.
Haha ur all heart. Talk about tarring everyone with the one brush! 😂 there’s so many factors that go towards someone becoming a dirt bag. I see classism is still alive and well in Ireland! The last acceptable form of discrimination. Do u work for rte by any chance? 🤔
Appreciate the video, but this problem started in the 90s, from what I have seen and heard. My (brown.. waves at the racists) father, a doctor, dealt with many a druggie when he worked Cherry Orchard hospital and prison, too. He also worked at Beaumont. Both are in Dublin. So I heard all sorts as a kid. The right wing crowd will make this out to be a sudden thing that started occurring in the last 5-10 years. Far from it.
Do you have any Irish documentaries? I'm 40% Irish from Northern Ireland my sister took an ancestry test. It would be so cool to have a job where I teach history but just teach it the students and teachers of these subjects go to field trips, tours based on history/science, go monuments, historical sights, historical reenactments, play video games based on the subjects, watch documentaries, learn about the history of farming/agriculture equipment and stay at hotels. I call this job the history tour guide job. I hope this job is real life it sounds so much fun.
@@johnjordan6736 Of course I will if I ever go to Ireland someday why would that make me a clown? I'm proud to be Irish. Plus I will wear shirts with the Irish flag and Irish symbols as well.
Depending on which part of Irish history you're interested in, if its ancient Irish history than I'd reccomend looking up videos on Newgrange, an astronomically relevant tomb which is older than the pyramids. Geographics made a good video on that. As well as look up other sites like the Ceide Fields, Europe's largest Neolithic site. Survive the Jive has a good few videos on them. For medieval history Brehon Academy is a really good source. Some of their material can be boring but overall I think they're very informative and interesting. Studium Historiae has also made some compelling videos on medieval Ireland, as well as Fortress of Lugh, who also covers mythology. Masaman also made videos on both the Irish culture and genetics, and the Celtic peoples in general. For modern history, Irish RUclipsrs Davy Holden and John D. Ruddy are really good sources. The RUclips channel Fire of Learning made a good long video essay on general Irish history, as well as Extra History (a spin-off of the Extra Credits youtube channel), Overly Sarcastic Productions, and the BBC's Story of Ireland TV documentary series is good too. The channel 'Learn Irish' is a good source of learning the language too, if you're interested.
Depending on which part of Irish history you're interested in, if its ancient Irish history than I'd reccomend looking up videos on Newgrange, an astronomically relevant tomb which is older than the pyramids. Geographics made a good video on that. As well as look up other sites like the Ceide Fields, Europe's largest Neolithic site. Survive the Jive has a good few videos on them. For medieval history Brehon Academy is a really good source. Some of their material can be boring but overall I think they're very informative and interesting. Studium Historiae has also made some compelling videos on medieval Ireland, as well as Fortress of Lugh. Masaman also made videos on both the Irish and the Celtic peoples in general. For modern history, Irish RUclipsrs Davy Holden and John D. Ruddy are really good sources. The RUclips channel Fire of Learning made a good long video essay on general Irish history, as well as Extra History (a spin-off of the Extra Credits youtube channel) Overly Sarcastic Productions, and the BBC's Story of Ireland TV documentary series is good too. The channel 'Learn Irish' is a good source of learning the language too, if you're interested. And the video 'Father Ted - Ireland's most essential comedy' is a good start to learning about Irish comedy
if its ancient Irish history than I would reccomend looking up videos on Newgrange, an astronomically relevant tomb which is older than the pyramids. Geographics made a good video on that. As well as look up other sites like the Ceide Fields, Europe's largest Neolithic site. Survive the Jive has a good few videos on them. For medieval history Brehon Academy is a really good source. Some of their material can be boring but overall I think they're very informative and interesting. Studium Historiae has also made some compelling videos on medieval Ireland, as well as Fortress of Lugh. Masaman also made videos on both the Irish and the Celtic peoples in general. For modern history, Irish RUclipsrs Davy Holden and John D. Ruddy are really good sources. The RUclips channel Fire of Learning made a good long video essay on general Irish history, as well as Extra History (a spin-off of the Extra Credits youtube channel) Overly Sarcastic Productions, and the BBC's Story of Ireland TV documentary series is good too. The channel 'Learn Irish' is a good source of learning the language too, if you're interested And the video 'Father Ted - Ireland's most essential comedy' is a good start to learning about Irish comedy
Any conversation other than decriminilisation and a health based approach to drugs is putting the cart before the horse. If we can't keep drugs out of prisons, then we can't keep them out of countries.
I think Europe desperately need to strength their defense capabilities,Not only defense from the territory attack from Russia,As well ramp up the capabilities of border guard.because it is a rudimentary sovereign emblematic for EU.
What timing!! the irish polics force has just been found to lose and misplace drugs in almost every part of the country, so imagije the confiscate the little bit they find and then "misplace" it
I live in Kilkenny and it has more of a heroin and tablets problem rather than coke but it all comes from Dublin usually, people travel up to buy drugs cheap then come back and sell them for more than they were bought for.
Living in Ireland since 2016. It’s a beautiful country with really nice, energetic people. But drugs are a real issue here. Specially in younger generation. They prefer to spend weekends doing coke/weed lying on someone’s floor rather than exploring the beautiful areas/hikes in this beautiful island. It’s actually very sad!
RTE would never show this...thanks dw👍
When you see something bad about your country in BBC or DW it means your country is doing something right that EU does not like.
Government mouthpiece
That's because RTÉ, as an organisation, is the single largest consumer of nose candy.
DW mostly shows negative of all other countries.
@@Reynolds128 RTÉ has done multiple specials about it
This time it’s crack and not craic in Dublin.
I'm a language teacher in Dublin and when people come over they fall in love with the city. They enjoy the culture, the music, the people. Some describe it as a safe haven in comparison to other cities such as Paris, Barcelona and Milan. But to me, after returning to the city after a year or so, I feel it's changed completely. It's heartbreaking to see the people of Ireland falling to addiction due to a lack of mental, physical and financial support, due to a lack of understanding, a lack of space to talk. When I go into the city centre, there's always a sense of danger within me that those around me seem oblivious to (that, or they've accepted it and found peace, which to me, is a mistake as its masking the issue). You see people lying on the floor, people overdosing, people screaming, blood on the stone pavements. It isn't Dublin. It isn't Ireland.
On the night of the November riots, I stood on O'Connell Bridge and watched the bus burn and silently cried. It was watching my home burn, and we're fighting each other instead of helping one another. Then, part of me felt that this would wake people up, make those oblivious aware of how Dublin is losing it's heart. But nine months on, it seems like it's all been forgotten about and we've returned to our silent stares, our mental blockage, our ignorance of what's around us.
Well said lad well said
Bonjour je viens de regarder le reportage et lire votre commentaire c'est effarant, j'ai toujours adoré l'Irlande je n'y suis jamais allé et c'est mon délire de vouloir aller faire un voyage en Irlande( effectivement quand je lis ça....😮 ) dans les terres de ce beau pays .C'est vraiment désolant de voir toute cette merde détruire un grand peuple est un si beau pays ,comme dit quelqu'un ...la misère engendre la violence😢.
Pour moi la seule et unique solution c'est l'État qui doit être intransigeant avec ces dealers . Des sanctions énormes de prison faire des saisies de matériel moto bijoux maison voiture etc.. cela permettra de financer des centres de cure et services de police ou de douane incorruptibles .
Je souhaite le meilleur à ce pays d'Irlande.😊🙏
Funny how a random reporter can catch these drug deals but Gardai cant.....
Gards are too busy trying to catch ppl going 10 over the limit than any actual crimes
Guards are utterly useless
Gardai manage the drug trade. Any country like Ireland that's run by the CIA will have pervasive drug use.
Notice how a Garda van drove past as the drug deal happened
Ireland that country has good people but has a lot off drug addiction or Craig addiction. Every street they use cocaine or weed Garda maybe they are there dealer
I left ireland in 2011 to New Zealand due to the economic crisis, back then there was little to nothing cocaine issues in my local town of Drogheda. I returned in 2022 and its madness. Everyone is on the gear.
Tbf, Drogheda always had headers.
There definitely was lots of cocaine in Drogheda in 2011 😂😂
😂 You must’ve been a bit innocent. The country was awash with coke back then. So much so that it got relatively cheap and every scrote was taking it every night out. I worked nightclub security in a similar town and we got tired of catching users and dealers only to have the cops release them without charge. They couldn’t be bothered because it was rife.
Can I go to New Zealand with you
@@Dreynoahh he was a good lad has a strong head on his shoulders haha fair play working security back then must have been some work
This isn't accurate. Drug use in Ireland has always been huge. All that's changed are the drugs taken. In the 70s and early 80s Dun Laoghaire, being a port, was considered to be the heroin capital of Europe. There were junkies all over the city. All the lanes around the city centre were full of needles. There were many pubs, snooker halls and cafés where you could score. Speed was also really big in the 80s. In the 90s there was a massive movement within the inner-city council flats to force dealers out of their communities. The rave scene and 'Celtic Tiger' introduced ecstasy and cocaine, and the new generation of clubbers started taking heroin so they could come down at the end of the night. Cocaine became huge in the 90s and 00s, like it did everywhere else. Cocaine is still really big, as is Ketamine. Ireland has always been an entry point for drugs.
Pretty accurate timelines not blown out of perspective, look at dunlaoighre now it's fine but yeah you gotta admit that the comedown from the love buzz did more harm then good to Irish society it just introduced the problem across the board,
The amount of open drug use in Dublin is crazy. Also younger people treat a line of coke the same as having a beer at this point in Ireland. It's literally everywhere.
Cops turn a blind eye. Seem to resent doing the job they’re paid to do. Justify it by saying the judges let them off. That’s like a cleaner refusing to empty the bins because people will just throw rubbish in it the next day.
And what is the problem with that?
@@TheKid_88why do u keep commenting this as if drug use is a good thing? U could argue that drug use is normal and morally “acceptable”, but clearly there is an issue. People are becoming addicted to garbage drugs and losing their money, health, family/friends, etc…. It’s obviously not a good thing. If the world was sensible about it, we’d have regulated it long ago. But that’s not the case. Maybe try to look at it from a different point of view, because im not really sure yours makes much sense…
I lived in Dublin in oct-dec 2023 and shared an apartment with 4 other guys. All of them used drugs regularly 😳. You can order drugs online and it’s delivered to you anywhere.
On one weekend, I was assaulted by a roommate who was high in cocaine. I had to leave the apartment overnight and go to a hostel. 😢
Avoid living with these kinds of people. Good luck to you.
Not surprised this happened. Lucky you got away. So hard to get a place there not much choice in roommates
Thats pathetic, 4 guys doing drugs while half of Islam invades ireland
@@JakeRandall-wm7hc it's the immigrants fault the Irish like coke.. and whiskey lol
@@d3r4g0d8not easy to get a house ha
46 years practicing dentistry showed me the long term heart effects of cocaine abuse. My cocaine addict patients current or past have changed their physiology to the point that local anesthetics do not work unless used in very high doses or they do not work at all. My one patient only stays numb for 30 minutes when I use a high dose injection that would keep a normal patient numb for 9 hours! ALL of the cocaine users had very sensitive hearts, (rapid heart beats, arrythmias), to the use of minute amounts of epinephrine in the anesthetics, (the epi keeps the anesthetic in place longer and is very helpful in pain control). A normal patient would have no rapid heart beat to these tiny quantities. Sacrificing a few hours of getting high for devastating future heart problems is ridiculous! Drug addiction is a modern form of slavery!
Wow, that's interesting.
At what point do you refuse service. All that medicine could be going to decent folk with conditions that weren’t their fault
@@cityguard4847 He’s a dentist. These aren’t heart transplants. Why would he need to turn any patient away (beyond practical needs like being at capacity in terms of number of patients attending his practice)? Everyone needs dental work at some point in their lives, coke use or not, so his dental services are more or less non-rivalrous, unlike with organ donations.
Those comments are very interesting, thank you. Ireland is too tolerant of drug use. I'm nervous about driving on weekend nights now.
Before I joined the Ambulance service I didn’t realise just how bad Cocaine is for the Heart, it’s frightening to see all the people on it and in 20-25 years the amount of young deaths from heart attacks and cardiac arrests will be a real shame.
Respect to Daniel……🙌🙏
This is about 20 years late
All my friends were doing coke, thankfully I never wanted to partake, I'm so thankful now. They need to educate the young when they are very young.
If young people are completely sober and have to listen to someone on coke talking for an hour, that might put them off!
Half of Bundestag is on cocaine 🤣 they should enforce drug testing.
Alcohol is nothing better than cocaine. So unless you don't drink alcohol either I wouldn't say anything if I were you.
@drunkensailor112 big difference between having the odd drink and being a Coke head LOL...maybe get a better point or say nothing yourself
The very young see it everyday, on the streets, playgrounds and in their homes.
Are they going to listen to scary stories and go for abstinence?
How's that working out with _something else_ literally every other animal on the planet is doing???
Fair play to Daniel and the social workers 👏
Daniel Jones and the other social workers 👏👏
He sounds so connor mcgregor
I live in Belfast and outta say 50 mates ages range from 30 to 50 there's about 5 of us that don't take it..... incredible how people love it
I'm from Dundalk and ❄️'s rampant here also... chefs, bartenders, shop owners, you name it... everyone is doing it. Its honestly so sad to see.
This is not just a problem limited to Ireland, its accross the globe.
Yes,,, 💯,, I got out,, almost died a couple of times,,, I'm 32 months Sober now,, steady job,, money in the bank,, renewed family interaction,,,, I'm grateful and try to spread the word,,, Sobriety is Beautiful,,,
I'm not sure you actually watched the full video, or read the title.
The description of the social problem prefaces the suggestion that it has become an entry point for drugs for the rest of Europe. So as much as you would like to belittle the issues of the country and lump it in with ''the rest of the world'', I think getting specific about the scope of the situation prefaces any sort of progress toward a solution.
@@moetav8 Main entry point? Are you having a laugh. Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands are the main entry points and always have been.
@@yermanoffthetellyThey mean it's one of the main entry points
@@paulgram3967well done mate,it's a tough battle. Literally outside my flats door there's crack being sold openly .
So sad to see beautiful Ireland in this state....😢
Until the government learns to put the foot down it’s only going to get worse
@@MrHubert09also casual users are part of the problem feeding criminality, no different to full blown addicts
Problem is when young people think taking it is normal and everyday use. That gets in their head but like that you want have families and continue normal life.
Thanks DW, a great video.
Fighting the supply side is a failure. Without reducing demand, supply will always be there.
How do you reduce demand?
@@-Osiris-You don't. People "need" drugs like we "need" electricity. We simply need safer legal drugs and better education surrounding them. They don't need to be a mysterious boogeyman.
@@European-Man-88 Not really, Asia and the Middle east don't really have a drug epidemic. They don't seem to need drugs
@@ThePorkchop1787 Less money there and some religious aspects with regard to intoxication of any kind. Not really comparable to Europe at all
Japan is the the only asian country where drug use is limited. Everywhere else there is lot of consumption. Mostly amphetamines. See Philippines for example.
Lived in Cork from 2007 to 2014. Everyone was doing coka-kola there over the weekends in pubs. Saw ppl sniffing in front of the security in the pub in open, noone said a word. Getting wasted is/was perceived as a part of the Irish culture.
Ireland's reluctance to invest in its own defense is sad. Expecting the Gardai to battle international drug gangs is preposterous. Criminal gangs need to be fought with military assets, not police.
Not by coincidence, by design. The irish government is ideologically opposed to actually helping the Irisn people.
To be fair fighting criminal gangs is the job of police in pretty much every first world country, so i wouldnt say its preposterous. Unfortunately the irish criminal justice system seems to be doing a piss poor job.
@rafalpilat4229 Well, international drug cartels, with ships, submarines, heavy weapons and other military gear are Para military organizations, and the lightly armed civil police forces in IRL or other developed countries are not really equipped for this task. The scale and seriousness of this, seems not to be understood by Irish government officials.
@@bikeman9899 Are cartels armed with heavy weapons and submarines actually using these weapons in Ireland to threaten gardai? Can you cite a single incident where this happened in recent history?
Yeah fighting drugs like a war is going great in the usa!
Live in Ireland for the last 20 years. Amount of addicts you see in city centre increased dramatically, its unbelievable.
Its gone very bad here. All the small villages are a wash with it. Scary how socially exceptable it is now. There not even hiding it anymore
Thank you for shining a light on this problem in Ireland. No other publication has the brass to do it. This is real journalism, something I thought had died. Thank you DW
RTE would never show this! Tks
Many thanks for the coverage
It's always been a big problem in ireland for a very long time. Even in small towns. Nothings being done. Getting worse. Seen it.
Any yokes 🤔
Alcohol IS the gateway drug. crazy how you’re worried about anything else, but alcohol is just fine. Horrible thing, alcohol addiction.
The amount of cocaine being casually used is plainly visible in Ireland. Seems everyone either does or knows someone who does lines in a bar.
Sorry to say but Ireland has always been the front runners in drug dealing for far longer than most ppl can know about
Quality journalism, thanks Deutsche Welle!
its not only coke thats a big problem here, ketamine and ecstasy are also hugely popular on west coast of ireland
Any yokes 🤪
Daniel is a great example to the young fellows out there, great work and keep strong!!
Ireland is such a mess..... it's going to take decades to fix
A country with a housing shortage despite having a smaller population than it did in 1845
Economy based on being a tax Haven, for foreign tech companies
A military comparable to a neighborhood watch
Political system dominated by two parties
They need to rejoin the UK asap
Lost generation. 😢 they are always back to drugs.
@@christianweibrecht6555
Only 10% of the workforce work in multinationals and that includes our own multinationals.
Political system has had 3 main parties for many years now.
What do we need a big military for? Who is going to invade us?
I'm not sure you know what you're talking about on any of your points.
It's not just big companies that pay the 12.5% corporation tax rate, it's every company. Even the small coffee shops and even my own 1 employee company.
This tax haven nonsense has been debunked over and over. You're just too lazy to research
@@RazorMouth tax haven = you just help companies avoid taxes
Apple is not going to build a factory in your country instead deploy shell companies that might employ six people
Trouble is there is so much drug driving now, on top of drink driving. Fatalities on the road are increasing, so everyone is affected by this.
Big time !
Farmers selling it in Tipp, I kid u not! Traveller's selling it all in Clonmel. All eight balls and 1/4s now. Disaster. Cops know exactly who is selling it....
That’s because we don’t have a navy capable of intercepting ships.because the criminals are smart and are using planes and submarines. We do have a very big cocaine problem here. I’m a counsellor and psychotherapist and it’s one of the things I treat a lot when everyone comes to me with addiction. I assumed it would be alcohol but a lot of my clients would be presenting with but it’s not it’s coke usage.
Why did Ireland allow their military to become microscopic?
@@christianweibrecht6555… I guess that’s the ‘benefit’ of not being a member of NATO…..
@@christianweibrecht6555Ireland isn't in nato because we're neutral and we don't have to meet the minimum contribution. There's a wall of nato to our right which means nato isn't that necessary.
Supply and demand, the drugs are there because the people want them. Why do the people want them? Here in the States, drug use is not usually a sign of lax security {I mean it's the well armed USA} Here people turn to drugs because they have no hope for the future, and no one cares about poor addicts
@@christianweibrecht6555a strong belief in the end of history and the gov never wanted a large standing army. They don't trust us.
Lost many friends to drugs, and they didn't accept help either. They think it is something to be proud of and good for themselves. More awareness is required, sorry for everyone who is challenged with an addiction.
Europe’s back door. Thnx DW.
Its crazy, its not only Dublin its everywhere, people using coke like its the same as having a beer on a friday night.
So many times now i've witnessed it, or been offered it by complete strangers, had an aggressive encounter with people who have taken too much of it.
I don't get the obsession I've talked with friends of mine and tried to figure out what they get out of it as casual users, just seems to be a way to stay up half the night drinking in someone's house. Most of them agree its pointless but they do it anyway
You see people sniffing and rubbing their noses walking around Tesco in the middle of the day. It’s everywhere in Ireland. Urban, rural, rural towns. People dealing in broad daylight with impunity. Closing rural Garda stations in the recession let lawlessness in that will be very difficult to reverse. The expansion of the motorway network made things very easy too.
Social exclusion is a huge problem in Ireland, and systematic poverty by austerity crazed policies, by various successive governments. It is far more complex than anyone clueless Middle Class academic can imagine or comprehend. And the Drugs pandemic everywhere is just symptom of this.
@StephenC-k5o the exception doesn't break the rule.
can't believe what's happened to Ireland
The boats and planes are interesting but irrelevant. Irish people suffer greatly with self respect and self confidence due to the generational trauma from 800 years of british oppression. The Irish government has consistently prioritised profits over the wellbeing of the Irish people ever since the creation of the free state, leading to pockets of extreme deprivation and a general lack of services and supports nationwide. When you see yourself as worthless and see no way out of your situation it's a natural human response to turn to drugs to mask the pain. Learning to accept and love the true nature of yourself and the environment you exist in is key for staying away from drugs, but for many Irish people that journey begins 100m behind the starting line.
I hope yall don’t end having to deal with fentanyl on a mass scale. It makes cocaine seem like actual flour.
This is a massive problem all across western nations currently. Worse than it has ever been. It will contribute to our eventual collapse, so I think we all need to see it in this context, either as a user or in a position of power. Western civilization is under attack, it could fall and this is just part of what is driving this situation.
Freeeeeeeeeeeedom! 🎉 🥳
The west has fallen, billions must get high
It's called Montezumas Revenge, I would steer well clear of it...
Make cocaine illegal then
The drugs aren't the problem. Poverty and lack of education are. And I'm not just talking about the users, the people who hate them need better education too...
Finnaly some one shows this. Our goverment wont !
0:39 that girl def participates 😂
Certainly not about to win any noble prizes anytime soon 😅
I've seen brighter Christmas lights.
Definitely not the sharpest tool in the box 😊
10yrs ago I was waiting to get a taxi to my hotel pre Uber about a year. It was a night of the all Ireland final, impossible to get a taxi, must have been offered Coke about 4-5 times in 50min
I mean when you have one of the worst justice system in Europe and Helen at the helm, your going nowhere fast.
Yea she's clueless... needs to go..
Ireland is a gangsta's paradise.
*My country, I'm sad*
Ireland is only looking at radar lately, so easy for the cartels
Yes but that issue is international and touches the EU which Ireland is part of so Ireland is not alone and if it is indeed an entry gate for smugling drugs into the continent I am pretty sure it will receive help from the union of 26 other country members. The EU is slow but it is quite efficient so solve common regional issues such as this, it is not hard to federate countries against drug trafficking so keep your sight bright.
The kinahan cartel have sm ting 2 do wt it
@@kroooassant9899The EU hasn’t helped ireland………..
terrible
Yay we're mentioned
That's not a good thing in this sense
sounds like the 1980's in the USA
Best wishes to all the social workers,they do a great and difficult job.
It’s also annoying walking on Dublin and Cork streets, smelling weeds.
Leave the country so
@@mcdaddy2011 The ones who should leave are those drug dealers and addicts.
Get out the strimmer
better smells weed than asian
@@lcsbrtlzz here comes another xenophobia whose breath can pollute the air
Irish government encourages this
Well nothing new! I lived in Dublin from 2004 to 2009 and it was already everywhere. Well amongst all others drugs and it seems so normal for the Irish to do drugs. Don't get me wrong I had an amazing time and Irish people are lovely. But I cannot imagine how this circus evolves in 15 years. It is certainly just total madness.
Old news for people who live in the country. Basically everyone knows about how bad the situation is lmao.
Yep, but unfortunately over the last few decades, almost all policies have been reactive, not pro-active. As such, it's necessary to talk about the issues, otherwise nothing will be done about them
True. its been like this for a while now
I like the way you picked O'Connell bridge. It's blatantly everywhere in Dublin fully open mother's pushing prams smoking crack but well O'Connell bridge is at least scenic xD
What has become of this country?
Laziness has brought this country to its knees. I lose half my pay check to areas like darndale and get nothing but abuse in return.
Weak Government... just looks after their own pockets and not the people..
Degeneracy.
47 uear old irish woman here...ive never took it and ive never even seen it be took.sooo no not everyone takes it ...only seen it the movies..but yet my life has been 😢 affected by it...
Government doesn't have the will to quell drugs from society. Simple..
The politicians here take coke as well and its well known and even discussed on the radio
@@davidanderson1749 Blame the people not the government again! Citizens have personal responsibility you know!
@@colors6692 what are you talking about? I'm just stating a well known fact that people in Ireland are aware of that others who don't live here may not realize. No where in my statement is there any blame.
@@davidanderson1749odd response. Although your statement doesn’t specifically blame politicians/government, you must be able to see it is easy to infer that from your statement
Government facilitates drug manufacturing and sale!!!!
Scotland is going through a cocaine epidemic aswell, never seen anything like it
Here in portugal, it's whatever people can inject, morphine, heroin... etc
At least it is not fentanyl
@Windward535 not yet but nitazines have been popping up and they can be up to 200 times stronger than heroin
In Portugal it's the same thing.
Even after drugs decriminalization?
@@vzheyko Yes my friend. Poor neighborhoods get affected a lot with drugs decriminalization, as in there's needles everywhere in Mouraria and other poor places. Rich places become safer tho. But the poor places become worse and more violent.
@@NunoFilipe99 noo mate. Dont compare Portugal drug addition to Ireland one. I'm luso-caboverdiano living in Ireland and I can confirm that here is way worst
Look at your high st .. Filled with Turkish’barbers’ and phone shops with 10-15 employees all driving flash cars.. Same in every country in U.K. ..
2:58 Very simply and clearly put.
More people in the 18-30 group seem to do cocaine in Dublin rather than don’t. Its everywhere
Not just Dublin. Every town and village in the country is awash with coke, speed, ket etc.
Go into any pub in Ireland go to the toilets. Go into the cubicle, lick ur finger and wipe the top of the toilet and u will find cocaine. Facts.
The order of the instructions is important here
@@OliverUnderTheMoon😂😂😂
@OliverUn😂derTheMoon
@@OliverUnderTheMoon it's how i get my free yayo
🤢 that's obscene
Not only for Drug smuglers ,for all Criminals of the World .welcome to soft touch Ireland .
A non-story. In the 70s Dublin had a massive problem with heroin. Nothing has changed except the drug. The West coast of Ireland has been used for smuggling for decades. Alcohol is a far bigger problem here.
Alcohol is rather a habit than problem in Eire imo. I’ve never heard about drugs pandemic in Ireland though (til today)
@@vzheyko Ireland is no different than any other country apart from being superior in every possible way. However, alcohol is a huge killer in Ireland and that, plus the social disturbances it causes is the problem. The main reason drugs are a problem anywhere is that they are illegal. Think about it.
@@patrickquinlan3056 yea, like they were in Portugal in 90s (until Lisbon decriminalized drugs)
Thank you DW good watch
Good man Daniel, respect 💪
They do it in high schools and in university.
Come to West Cork amd Kerry. There is 350 piers and coves to drop off drugs from a boat
With Theresa may delay Brexit there was talk of backstop for N Ireland for customs so a backdoor runs with the area?
Lack of prosperity is a big driver for substance abuse. With sky high rents and stagnant wages no wonder people are looking at drugs to take away the misery of living somewhere so hopeless 😒
Any chance Ireland actually tries to rebuild their navy to intercept smugglers?
It is usually the coast guard or border control who handle smuggling
Not a chance, our government wouldn't get near it. Plus as an island it is extremely difficult.
No one really wants to work in the Navy.
This is exactly what needs to happen it's ridiculous, the government need to invest in it big time
Too busy paying for hotels for criminals
Ireland have a such big problem about alcohol and drugs, nobody wanna talk about it, just keep the people complain the immigrants as the problem ...😅
I live about 3 kms from Darndale in a 5 bed €600K house, my point being Darndale is a mess but not because of poverty. You have a population unwilling to work to benefit from the economic boom. None of them have completed 2nd level education never mind third level. All looking for the easy money, there's not a hard days work in them. I lived in Priorswood in the 1980's for a brief time, I know the mindset. If you work hard in these communities and achieve anything then someone comes along and wrecks it or takes it off you. On top of that you have soft touch policing and a court system that fails to be effective in cracking the drug gang sub culture.
Ireland has invested heavily in ships, aircraft etc but we have no one interested in joining the navy. The wages and conditions are just not competitive in a booming economic back drop.
At the end of the day this 'shower' of losers has to take responsibility for being dirt and clean their own act up
Ok boomer
THE BREADLINE
@@liamo8932 Man I worked for every cent I got. Grew up in a one parent family, went down to live with my Dad in '88 in Priorswood in a council house for 3 months. Bought a house when I was 47. 2007 was devastating, don't think it was any easier than today.
@richy3084 i dont doubt you worked hard but you rode a wave that created way more wealth for you than your own back
Haha ur all heart. Talk about tarring everyone with the one brush! 😂 there’s so many factors that go towards someone becoming a dirt bag. I see classism is still alive and well in Ireland! The last acceptable form of discrimination. Do u work for rte by any chance? 🤔
Appreciate the video, but this problem started in the 90s, from what I have seen and heard. My (brown.. waves at the racists) father, a doctor, dealt with many a druggie when he worked Cherry Orchard hospital and prison, too. He also worked at Beaumont. Both are in Dublin. So I heard all sorts as a kid.
The right wing crowd will make this out to be a sudden thing that started occurring in the last 5-10 years. Far from it.
Do you have any Irish documentaries? I'm 40% Irish from Northern Ireland my sister took an ancestry test. It would be so cool to have a job where I teach history but just teach it the students and teachers of these subjects go to field trips, tours based on history/science, go monuments, historical sights, historical reenactments, play video games based on the subjects, watch documentaries, learn about the history of farming/agriculture equipment and stay at hotels.
I call this job the history tour guide job. I hope this job is real life it sounds so much fun.
40% Northern Irish? Sure you are buddy, make sure you tell everyone that here if you ever visit..🤡
@@johnjordan6736 Of course I will if I ever go to Ireland someday why would that make me a clown? I'm proud to be Irish.
Plus I will wear shirts with the Irish flag and Irish symbols as well.
Depending on which part of Irish history you're interested in,
if its ancient Irish history than I'd reccomend looking up videos on Newgrange, an astronomically relevant tomb which is older than the pyramids. Geographics made a good video on that. As well as look up other sites like the Ceide Fields, Europe's largest Neolithic site. Survive the Jive has a good few videos on them.
For medieval history Brehon Academy is a really good source. Some of their material can be boring but overall I think they're very informative and interesting. Studium Historiae has also made some compelling videos on medieval Ireland, as well as Fortress of Lugh, who also covers mythology.
Masaman also made videos on both the Irish culture and genetics, and the Celtic peoples in general.
For modern history, Irish RUclipsrs Davy Holden and John D. Ruddy are really good sources.
The RUclips channel Fire of Learning made a good long video essay on general Irish history, as well as Extra History (a spin-off of the Extra Credits youtube channel), Overly Sarcastic Productions, and the BBC's Story of Ireland TV documentary series is good too.
The channel 'Learn Irish' is a good source of learning the language too, if you're interested.
Depending on which part of Irish history you're interested in,
if its ancient Irish history than I'd reccomend looking up videos on Newgrange, an astronomically relevant tomb which is older than the pyramids. Geographics made a good video on that. As well as look up other sites like the Ceide Fields, Europe's largest Neolithic site. Survive the Jive has a good few videos on them.
For medieval history Brehon Academy is a really good source. Some of their material can be boring but overall I think they're very informative and interesting. Studium Historiae has also made some compelling videos on medieval Ireland, as well as Fortress of Lugh.
Masaman also made videos on both the Irish and the Celtic peoples in general.
For modern history, Irish RUclipsrs Davy Holden and John D. Ruddy are really good sources.
The RUclips channel Fire of Learning made a good long video essay on general Irish history, as well as Extra History (a spin-off of the Extra Credits youtube channel) Overly Sarcastic Productions, and the BBC's Story of Ireland TV documentary series is good too.
The channel 'Learn Irish' is a good source of learning the language too, if you're interested.
And the video 'Father Ted - Ireland's most essential comedy' is a good start to learning about Irish comedy
if its ancient Irish history than I would reccomend looking up videos on Newgrange, an astronomically relevant tomb which is older than the pyramids. Geographics made a good video on that. As well as look up other sites like the Ceide Fields, Europe's largest Neolithic site. Survive the Jive has a good few videos on them.
For medieval history Brehon Academy is a really good source. Some of their material can be boring but overall I think they're very informative and interesting. Studium Historiae has also made some compelling videos on medieval Ireland, as well as Fortress of Lugh.
Masaman also made videos on both the Irish and the Celtic peoples in general.
For modern history, Irish RUclipsrs Davy Holden and John D. Ruddy are really good sources.
The RUclips channel Fire of Learning made a good long video essay on general Irish history, as well as Extra History (a spin-off of the Extra Credits youtube channel) Overly Sarcastic Productions, and the BBC's Story of Ireland TV documentary series is good too.
The channel 'Learn Irish' is a good source of learning the language too, if you're interested
And the video 'Father Ted - Ireland's most essential comedy' is a good start to learning about Irish comedy
Please make a full documentary about this Please 🙏
You don't make crack with baking powder, it's baking/bread soda.
Fair play Daniel 👏
Any conversation other than decriminilisation and a health based approach to drugs is putting the cart before the horse. If we can't keep drugs out of prisons, then we can't keep them out of countries.
Irish media won't show this!
The place is a dump now
Wait til fentanyl arrives
I think Europe desperately need to strength their defense capabilities,Not only defense from the territory attack from Russia,As well ramp up the capabilities of border guard.because it is a rudimentary sovereign emblematic for EU.
It's no different than anywhere else in the world.
What timing!! the irish polics force has just been found to lose and misplace drugs in almost every part of the country, so imagije the confiscate the little bit they find and then "misplace" it
The pigs end up snorting the "misplaced" snowfall.
Something does not make sense..if Ireland is so full of drugs then why are they so expensive and low quality🤔
Overpriced, just like everything else in Ireland
You must know the wrong people! 😉
They charge according to the wealth of the market, not the quality.
I live in Kilkenny and it has more of a heroin and tablets problem rather than coke but it all comes from Dublin usually, people travel up to buy drugs cheap then come back and sell them for more than they were bought for.
Sadness
Living in Ireland since 2016. It’s a beautiful country with really nice, energetic people. But drugs are a real issue here. Specially in younger generation.
They prefer to spend weekends doing coke/weed lying on someone’s floor rather than exploring the beautiful areas/hikes in this beautiful island. It’s actually very sad!