We returned to Liffey Street to speak to locals.
Image: Shutterstock/David Collado Image: Shutterstock/David Collado DUBLIN’S NORTH INNER city remains in the grips of a crack cocaine epidemic andits related crime remains a huge problem for the businesses and the locals trying to go about their daily lives.
Muhammad Rashid has been working in the Liffey Street area for five years since moving here from Pakistan. He described how his regular working day is a mix of stress and then fear when drug users arrive into the convenience store. The nature of the drug means that users get a very quick high which dissipates quickly meaning that those addicted to the drug crave another deal very quickly, according to one garda we spoke to in relation to the street crime.
He explained his frustration that things have gone back to the way they were shortly before the summer months.He said: “They come in and start to throw things at the staff, throw things off the table, for no reason. They just do it because they are so high. They do not know where they are sometimes. I have called the garda so many times. My staff have been injured before.”
Multiple sources have told us of their frustration surrounding resourcing of the area. They described how they feel they are just “moving the problem to another area to let another station look after it”.
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