Cocaine Cowboys: Nicola Tallant discusses Ireland's gangland feuds & drug epidemic

Nicola Tallant discusses her new book 'Cocaine Cowboys' in studio with Pat Kenny.
Gangs such as the Kinahan cartel and the Hutch organised crime gang have dominated the headlines with murders and drug dealing all over the country.
Nicola speaks about Ireland's history with the drug, the violence that its importation and sale has caused, and what it means for the future of policing in the state.
What is your experience of the prevalence of cocaine in Ireland?
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[@Rheinmeister09]

Haven't lived in Ireland in 20 years, but growing up in the 80s and 90s in rural Ireland you would never have seen or heard of drug taking other than the inner cities. I am blown away by the normalization of drug taking by good old middle class Ireland. What the hell has happened that people in their 60s or 70s are using cocaine.

[@DarrenMac-yk2gd]

You wouldn’t have had unvetted or undocumented African males let free to target Irish women either

[@MultiLiverpool1]

The thing about the old days...they the old days

[@punchy1325]

Gerry Ryan was a lovely fella 😂

[@declanfeeney7814]

The war on drugs failed. Time for war on addiction

[@shanequinn7727]

Pat Kenny literally spoke about people shooting up outside the newstalk building. Where is the "war" on drugs? The reality is that the laws against drugs are not properly enforced.

[@liamo6889]

Kinahans best customer is rte

[@TheGeneral_LUFC]

No it's farmers

[@tomgreene1843]

Surely it is the working classes?@@TheGeneral_LUFC

[@AmandaBowe-be6vd]

Ryan turbidy on the toy show after the ads he had a trickle of blood running out of his nose

[@byrne1916]

I wonder where she got the name for the book

[@jonnyp7740]

Legalise it and put all the money into education and rehabilitation for addiction then. Pretty simple really.

[@Colin_Power]

If you think Cartels wouldnt supply coca leaf to companies to product pharma grade product youre wrong Nicola. Why would they not? so much less hassle

[@mcsuibhne005]

06:30 Cheaper than alcohol? What?

[@grahamluna6935]

It's not a time to be out of your head. Don't distroy the gift of your intellect/soul. Your ancestral past is screaming at you

[@highvolumepls]

Remember that awful show Love and Hate, that was game changer, and everybody laughed,"cool" :(

[@TheGeneral_LUFC]

Coke is a life saver when out on the beer.

[@michaelmccallion7418]

Depends on how much you take and the quality of it yes 🙌

[@rozzer8290]

For lightweights who can't handle the gargle

[@joewalsh4685]

People are able to buy it in Rossport, county Mayo, believe that.

[@johndoyle-hf6wm]

Stop glorifying them in the press,

[@user-sp5pi9pg6x]

Cork at the weekends is riddle with coke

[@DaveGreeneramblingcarpenter]

Think that title may stolen 😂😂

[@GasDude1011]

2006 film

[@BrianBoru5523]

Free Aaron Brady.

[@highvolumepls]

Ireland should be weepong w shame after the men and women fought for freedom 1916, despicable,

[@geraldine9able]

Our Toickeach used ot openly.

[@markshields5883]

If they still made ecstasy like they did in early 90s then people wouldn't be taking coke

[@johnkehoe8019]

Yay ! New narco state !

[@geraldine9able]

Leo Vadaraker used ot openly.

[@geraldine9able]

NOBODY LIKE VADARAKER TO ADVERTISE COKE.

[@TheGeneral_LUFC]

Legalise cannabis ffs.

[@johndoyle-hf6wm]

It's a waste of police time

[@stainlesssteve25]

The devil's dandruff

[@danielkeane1363]

I like this reporter but with the cost of living even living a simple life the temptation is to great for a lot people to live a life or to build a nest egg I don’t take it my self or sell it but I can understand why people who can’t get work or a place to live I can understand. I haven’t been on a night out in years over the cost of beer. If your clever coke can pay for a better life and education let’s face it this government have there own people on high paying job and nice housing estates and this is a fact they don’t want citizens from housing estates making big money. This government want there own people and their foreign colleagues working and controlling people. The risk is sometimes worth the reward. Homeless people especially young girls and young families will take the temptations most of the time, a cold hungry child won’t care were the heat and dinner money comes from and either will the parents.

[@shamrockgerry]

Love affair ????? With coke. I dont agreed. 😢

[@user-xx8ot7go2z]

Kenny takes coke

[@jasonbyrne6132]

Just make addiction free drugs...simple 😊

[@gearoid9835]

Magic mushrooms are addiction free drugs.

[@atrockbottomandshootingfor9079]

Leagalising drugs would also put some journalist out of work I'm not sure they'd want that so really are we all as bad as each other for getting a slice of the pie

[@tinkletink1403]

nicola with her snout firmly in the prohibition trough