Oct 15, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 12 segments
Sinéad opens up about her teenage son’s involvement in criminal behaviour, her fears for him and her family See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ciaran CudahyHostSinéadGuestGraham KavanaghGuestTrevor BissettGuest
If you were listening yesterday, you'll know that we were following on from that awful firebomb, petrol bomb attack in Waterford that claimed four lives from one family.
And central to that conversation was the issue of drug debts a- and drug intimidation.
Actually, I, I know it being brought up in the Dáil today, even, uh, David Cullinane from Sinn Féin, uh, railing against what a scourge this is in society, and it has to be said, the Minister for Justice agreeing with him on most fronts.
Um, but on this show yesterday, it was Deborah who captured most people's attention because she got in touch with her story of drug dealers calling to her family home to collect money that her son owed to them.
Now, if you missed Deborah yesterday, here's just a little flavor of what she had to say.
He was going to different dealers to get his, um, drugs, and some wouldn't, um, give them to him because, you know, they'd have heard he didn't pay up or that he was in trouble, so he was going to different dealers.
So I, I had different dealers coming up to my house over a two- or three-month period looking for 500 to 800 euro.
It escalated very quickly.
Just the addiction was just apparent then.
I did get my windows smashed in once because I, I just had kind of said at one stage, um, he was in rehab, and I said, "Ah, look, I don't take drugs.
Why am I paying for drugs?" And that's, the attitude I gave one day at the door, and my windows were smashed in after that, which was terrifying.
It was absolutely terrifying.
You're just caught in this cycle of fear and terror.
That is the cycle that Deborah found herself in, and she was kind enough to, to share that story with us yesterday, and we had a huge reaction to it.
And like I say, it's been talked about, this issue, drug intimidation and, and drug debts and, and collection in, in the Dáil today.
If you were listening yesterday, you'll know that we were following on from that awful firebomb, petrol bomb attack in Waterford that claimed four lives from one family.
And central to that conversation was the issue of drug debts a- and drug intimidation.
Actually, I, I know it being brought up in the Dáil today, even, uh, David Cullinane from Sinn Féin, uh, railing against what a scourge this is in society, and it has to be said, the Minister for Justice agreeing with him on most fronts.
Um, but on this show yesterday, it was Deborah who captured most people's attention because she got in touch with her story of drug dealers calling to her family home to collect money that her son owed to them.
Now, if you missed Deborah yesterday, here's just a little flavor of what she had to say.
He was going to different dealers to get his, um, drugs, and some wouldn't, um, give them to him because, you know, they'd have heard he didn't pay up or that he was in trouble, so he was going to different dealers.
So I, I had different dealers coming up to my house over a two- or three-month period looking for 500 to 800 euro.
It escalated very quickly.
Just the addiction was just apparent then.
I did get my windows smashed in once because I, I just had kind of said at one stage, um, he was in rehab, and I said, "Ah, look, I don't take drugs.
Why am I paying for drugs?" And that's, the attitude I gave one day at the door, and my windows were smashed in after that, which was terrifying.
It was absolutely terrifying.
You're just caught in this cycle of fear and terror.
That is the cycle that Deborah found herself in, and she was kind enough to, to share that story with us yesterday, and we had a huge reaction to it.
And like I say, it's been talked about, this issue, drug intimidation and, and drug debts and, and collection in, in the Dáil today.
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