Judge's drugs diversion programme helping cocaine users avoid criminal conviction

'A fierce problem with cocaine' in Cork prompted one judge to devise a scheme to help users of the drug, mostly young men, to avoid a conviction. Now retired from the bench, Judge Olann Kelleher tells Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe about the success of the diversion programme and his hope that other judges will embrace it

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