A city centre primary school is considering legal options as they continue to oppose plans for a supervised drug injection centre 150 yards away from the school.
St Audoen's National School on Cook Street often suffers from anti-social behaviour related to drug use. The problem is so common that the blinds in the classrooms are regularly pulled down to prevent the children from seeing people use drugs on a patch of grass directly opposite the school.
Parents say the medically supervised injection centre, which is set to be established in the basement of the River Bank building on Merchant's Quay, will exacerbate the problems. Following a Judicial Review lodged by the board of the school, the High Court decided to send the plans to An Bord Pleanala in 2019.
