Senior Mayo garda says drug-related intimidation is being significantly under-reported

The scene of the house fire in Edenderry, Co Offaly, where Mary Holt (60) and her grandnephew Tadhg Farrell (4) died following an arson attack. Photo: Aisling Hyland/PA

The scene of the house fire in Edenderry, Co Offaly, where Mary Holt (60) and her grandnephew Tadhg Farrell (4) died following an arson attack. Photo: Aisling Hyland/PA

Drugs are in every town and village in the west of Ireland and so too is the threat and reality of drug intimidation.

In Mayo, there were 11 reports of drug-related intimidation notified to Gardaí in 2024.