A General Election candidate in Roscommon-Galway has called for a proper policing plan for the River Shannon. Independent candidate Eugene Murphy says criminal gangs are using the river to move drugs into rural Ireland.
The Scramogue man said Garda stations in the constituency should never have been closed down. Speaking as part of the Let's Talk election debate series, he said frontline Gardaí had raised the issue with him:
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The former Fianna Fáil politician says the issue of drugs in rural Ireland should be top of the agenda ahead of polling day:
