A MUM who grew up as a typical middle-class girl has revealed how boozing at 14 sent her life on a different trajectory. Olivia Taylor first began boozing at 14 in the park with friends, but her ...

Antoinette Foley, from Newbridge Co Kildare, was once homeless and addicted to heroin and crack cocaine, but now she is sober ...

High on crack cocaine, Aaron carried a knife and kept his shoes tied tight, constantly prepped to either fight or run. He stabbed a dealer in the face to get a fix — knowing that the high would only ...

The case of a crack addict who shot another man twice in the head is a “vivid illustration” of how things can go wrong when people become “enmeshed in criminality” through taking “so-called ...

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A mobile phone suddenly started ringing just seconds after a drug-addicted woman and her accomplice were caught with stashes of heroin and crack cocaine on a kitchen table at their drug den home.

THE exasperated and heartbroken parents of a crack addict who once urged a judge to show him leniency have seen him jailed after he burgled their home again. Despite previously vowing to give up drugs ...

A crack cocaine addict son who was suffering from withdrawal symptoms and in a ‘manic state’ strangled his mother by squeezing her neck tightly. George Smith pestered his mother for money to fund his ...

A crack cocaine addict who robbed a taxi driver after threatening him with a pointed weapon while an accomplice wrapped a rope around the victim's neck has been sentenced to seven and half years.

A crack cocaine addict who carried out sixteen house burglaries within a year in Dublin has been given a six year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Keith Hogan of Balfe Road East, Crumlin, ...