Hostile takeovers: Dealers sell from the homes of vulnerable addicts
Drug dealers in Ballymun and other disadvantaged areas are targeting vulnerable people and taking over properties to use as a base for their illicit trade. Cormac O’Keeffe examines how criminals are keeping communities ‘insecure, fearful, and subordinate’
Eddie D Arcy, recently retired community youth worker with 40 years experience and part-time lecturer in DKIT. Picture: Moya Nolan
Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 15:02
Cormac O Keeffe Security Correspondent
When a garda was shot during a forced entry of a house in Ballymun in December 2017, officials in Dublin City Council became aware of their first case of home “takeovers”.