# Merchants Quay
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Syringe analysis shows increase in methamphetamine use and cocaine-heroin mixture
10 Aug 2022
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Merchants Quay
Just two people wrote to city planners saying they were in favour of the new supervised injecting facility
3 Jan 2020
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supervised injecting
'A dictatorship': Deputy Lord Mayor slams Simon Harris over comments on planning refusal for injection centre
28 Oct 2019
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Homelessness
'It’s terrifying rough sleeping. I stay up all night, lying in a doorway'
24 Oct 2019
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Addiction
Former drugs minister says injecting centre plan has 'been allowed to die' by government
27 Jul 2019
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Dublin City Council refuses planning permission for Ireland's first injecting centre
26 Jul 2019
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Injecting Centre
Gardaí refuse to provide policing plan needed for injecting centre until planning permission is granted
4 Jul 2019
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Mental Health
'I'd be dead, simple as that': Homeless people with mental health difficulties treated 'every day' at Merchants Quay
14 Jun 2019
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'I owe this place my life': Inside Dublin's only charity offering free hot Sunday dinners to the homeless
31 Mar 2019
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'We've seen people die, people beaten up horrifically': This primary school doesn't want an injecting centre 300m from its front door
16 Mar 2019
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'We are seeing people who have a home, but they can’t afford the heating or the food to cook'
7 Mar 2019
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Planned supervised injection centre may not open in 2019, new Merchants Quay CEO says
15 Dec 2018
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riverbank building
Temple Bar pubs and U2 hotel among 99 objections to State's first supervised injecting centre
15 Nov 2018
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'I started taking drugs when I was 12 ... it was just seen as a cool thing to do'
29 Sep 2018
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Homeless and addiction charity says 'Ireland is facing a deepening social crisis'
14 Sep 2018
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We have a location for the first supervised drug injecting room - what happens next?
10 Mar 2018
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Injecting Centres
'What it means is that we won't arrest people for carrying heroin': Confusion remains over injection centre policing
5 Mar 2018
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health minister
Steroid abuse: Simon Harris wants gym owners to help combat problem
26 Sep 2017
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Drugs
Calls for a heroin 'overdose antidote' to be made more available to addicts' families
25 Jul 2017
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homeless beds
Fr Peter McVerry calls for immediate closure of Merchants Quay Night Cafe
22 Dec 2016
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art therapy
"When I was 15 I found €3,500 worth of heroin on the ground... and that was it for me"
14 Aug 2016
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"There are people dying injecting themselves. I had to get the injection that brings you back to life"
7 Nov 2015
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Drugs
Progressive laws and the Dark Web are changing the lives of Irish drug users
7 Nov 2015
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Voices
Inside the Night Cafe: 'People are just so relieved to be indoors for the night'
Mark Kennedy
31 May 2015
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Homeless
There was a queue of people waiting to use Dublin's new homeless café when it opened last night
22 Jan 2015
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drug users
Ireland has 9,615 methadone users but care plans needed to get them drug-free
22 Apr 2014
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