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You have drugs going to the back-end of Mayo and the highest hill in Kerry

Heroin abuse has been a problem in Irish cities for decades but has spread over the past 18 months to "seriously small" rural villages, where treatment services for addicts are hard to come by.

Gráinne didn't realise how bad her heroin problem was until she tried to hang herself. “Someone cut me down,” she says. “I wouldn’t be here if they hadn’t.” When she first saw her boyfriend heating heroin on a sheet of tinfoil and inhaling the fumes five years ago, Gráinne didn’t think it was any different from the other highs she had tried while working in bars around Westmeath.