A mother whose son died from heroin addiction has told how she is still paying off her son’s massive debts — 10 years after he died.
Annette Kinehane, from Tallaght in Dublin, was left devastated after her 32-year-old son John was found dead with a needle in his arm in the toilet of a pub in January in 2013. He had just become a dad eight months prior to his death.
Annette will feature in tonight’s Gaelic in the Joy on RTE One, where she tells convicted offenders in Mountjoy prison how she was threatened with a hammer and a gun by debt collectors to pay her son’s drug debts in a bid to raise awareness about the impact of their crimes on innocent families. Speaking to co-host Philly McMahon, she said: “When he was 17 or 18, he started messing with hash. Then it progressed to tablets. He never had any money for anything.”
