A woman has spoken of the intimidation her family received from a local rural gang after her son failed to pay a €30 drug debt.
Mary, from Youghal, Cork, spoke of the horror she felt when, one evening, she found her son crying in the sitting room of her home saying, "they will kill me for €30."
Her son owed a local gang €30 for hash and the dealers threatened his life when he failed to make payment.
"They got his best friend to show them where our son lived," Mary told RTE's Liveline.
At the time, Mary and her husband, were not in a position to pay the money owed.
"We had a mortgage to pay and then €30 became €60... and so on," she explained.
On the night the dealers called to her home, they threatened to "break every window" of her house and car.
They said: "We now know where he lives and we will be back."
Source: Sasha Brady, Irish Independent, 18/02/16
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