Kenneth Egan and Philly McMahon have both expressed their disappointment with a Fine Gael TD using the term 'druggies' while discussing the drug addiction crisis gripping Dublin's city centre.
Both sporting legends are acutely aware of how addiction can take over and ruin lives with the Olympic silver medalist having battled alcoholism while the Dublin GAA great lost his brother to a drug overdose.
Paul Kehoe used the term in the Dáil on Tuesday as TDs discussed the issue ahead of an RTE Prime Time episode that will examine how the capital's main street of O'Connell Street has become a more dangerous place due to its ever-worsening substance abuse problem.
