ICON names major drug dealers

ANTI drugs activists in Dublin warned last night that they would march on the homes of relatives and friends visited by those…

ANTI drugs activists in Dublin warned last night that they would march on the homes of relatives and friends visited by those they suspect are drug dealers.

More than 500 people attended a Don Baker concert in Sean MacDermott Street church organised by the Inner City Organisation Network (ICON).

An ICON spokesman said anyone "accepting dealers into their homes" would be targeted. "We will march on those homes and we'll get them out of the area as well."

One man called on the Government to give the assets frozen by the Criminal Assets Bureau to the "communities like this who have suffered the scourge of these people." He was given a loud, round of applause.

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The speakers named two men from the area believed to be major drug dealers and the crowd was led on a march, to a number of flats and houses.

At one house a young woman screamed that the man they wanted was not living there. At the last house an ICON spokesman said the occupant had "used kids to push heroin on kids". He said he wanted to "breed hate" in the people in the crowd because pushers should be hated. "If he was dead tomorrow the flags would fly," he shouted. "Don't forget his miserable name."

Catherine Cleary

Catherine Cleary

Catherine Cleary, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a founder of Pocket Forests