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Breda Fell

Caller and guest on RTÉ Radio 1's Liveline, sharing personal stories on the Irish phone-in show.

Oct 16, 2026

23:23
What is it that you and other members of FARI hope to do to highlight this issue we've been talking about, drug debt, drug collection, and violent intimidation?
23:33
Um, [sighs] I have to say, I was just listening to Sean there, and he has expressed all of the emotions, uh, very, very clearly, um, in terms of what we know families are experiencing across the country.
23:49
That, uh, enormous emotional, financial, and psychological pressure.
23:54
Um, and it's just that families should not have to deal with that, should not experience that in, in, in their own, uh, their own home.
24:05
So really what we have and, uh, and have done for over a number of years is call for that Support, um, where people are experiencing the problem, that is in their communities, in their housing estates, in the areas that people are living, that the responses and that coordinated response and support should be available, uh, to them.
24:32
And it's not just a Garda issue.
24:35
I heard Sean talk about the underage at the time, um, of the drug use.

11 MINS LATER

35:32
Of course there is.

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