Enough Is Enough: Concerned Parents Against Drugs. Dublin 1988

[@thinkofitthisway7804]

I grew up in Dublin in the 80's. I remember the Concerned Parents. From what I recollect there were 8 kids found dead in a flat in inner city Dublin one morning, from a cocaine overdose. It was later discovered that the cocaine was laced with arsenic as one drug gang tried to take over another's territory (they obviously didn't care about the consequences of their actions). Anyway, in the aftermath of that, a group of parents, having gotten no joy from the police, got together and formed a group which took back the neighborhoods. Basically, they blocked off all entrances to the flats with barrels, so it was impossible to drive through freely. Anyone who arrived at the "checkpoint" was questioned by the parents. If they couldn't provide an address to which they were going, and a valid reason for their visit, they were told in a very direct manner to F*** Off. Then the parents went the homes of the dealers living in their area and smashed their windows. They also put signs outside their houses telling them they had 2 days to get out.........or else. It worked and it worked so well that it was taken on in several areas of Dublin where drugs were an issue. What are the chances that people, not just in Dublin, but in any city where there is a drug problem, would be allowed to do this today?

[@imallrightme7336]

Great documentary

[@bernardbrogan7206]

i remember them days well and all the friends i lost . but it was a better dublin we all stuck up for eachother ..

[@Mollys-lips]

Yeah it was, we were all 1 ppl all of us in it together . Nowadays ppl step over ppl on the streets my husband had a very bad fall &I wasn't there not 1 person helped him same with me ma she tripped on Talbot street with the shopping &no one stopped to help her up , bck when Dublin was the"Real Dublin" she would've had loads of ppl helping her&carrying her shopping. It's sad what's happened to our town? I miss it.

[@bernardbrogan7206]

@@Mollys-lips im sorry to say Dublin as we know it is gone

[@kid--presentable]

@@bernardbrogan7206 multiculturalism ruined it. Let's be honest

[@SarahRichardson-x2g]

Bck in late 1980s dublins inner city was plagued by a heroin epidemic and tday 2024 homeless is rife of the charts

[@randommandem9801]

I was raised in that madness and around that time i saw Hardwick Street on this grew Up around there. Interesting document. Would of liked to of seen more about the movement and the evictions. Still good viewing power of the people. When you can't go to police what the community can achieve is amazing really.

[@dOlier]

Glad to hear you liked it

[@randommandem9801]

@@dOlier got any more stuff from that time.

[@gxhhher3896]

@dolier do u have any idea the name of the song at the end of the video?

[@barrymcguire7124]

@@gxhhher3896 ding-a-ling ding dong

[@25pappy]

No offence but why is it left to the women to sort this shit out? Your mas and yer aunties etc.? Where the fcuk are the men?

[@MrEvanTea]

Any link for the "Resource Publications - Raging" song?

[@eddiestaunton514]

The plague done less damage than the Dunnes

[@C-il2ey]

Dublin❤

[@anonymoushippopotamus3862]

How Ireland has fallen. You will never see this kinda community again.

[@brianbadonde8700]

100 percent

[@alltypesofvideos9902]

In a way people who fighting drugs keeping it illegal are really helping people sell it

[@bernadettetormey4452]

My Daddy was part of this movement. I remember the black Mariah parked across the road 😮

[@melissa0386]

If they only new what was coming f worse now the crack is here fentinal 😢is her people are worse people with young kids and all are taken it 😢 f sad ❤🙏🙏🙏

[@melissa0386]

Jasus the kids god bless them

[@patkearney9320]

Same crap today in some places people had some courage back then. The Cops done nothing i was a junky then at 18 lm ashamed now of what i done to decent working class people. The flats was once a drug den and ordinary people and the fear of republican men who stood with them, stopped the or moved the dealers out. I remember buying from kids it was crazy for the time. In the end you couldn't go into the flats if not known. So much respect for the concerned parents and so sorry for not respecting where you lived history will be kind to all the C.P.A.D.

[@anonymoushippopotamus3862]

Nothing to be ashamed of mate delighted you got yourself free, life isn't about not making mistakes, it's whether you can learn from them and move forward in a productive way. It's people like ourselves that can be providers of change to the younger generations.

[@gxhhher3896]

anyone know the name of the song at the end? much appreciated if u do thanks

[@SarahRichardson-x2g]

During the 1980s when the dunnes flash Larry and that where in there prime dublin inner city was destroyed by a hero*n epidemic many family's where destroyed and many most beautiful young people passed due to it and over dosed at young age crazy times dublin is worse tday tho 😢

[@julianafredman3209]

Meeting Room documentary tells the story of CPAD in the 1980s @

[@dOlier]

Meeting Room ?

[@eoinyessesmaguire1636]

I remember all these mad day's, The Provos were backing the parents but could do with that kind again least they were alot more effective then the Garda mad old day's though 👍☘☘☘

[@Waterford051]

Dessie curleys everywhere

[@Mollys-lips]

😂😂😂😂I know it's mad ,I don't rmbr everyone looking like that but they did here's proof , Thank God my da nvr had that hair or a tash, lol.

[@Waterford051]

@@Mollys-lips are you a Sharon curley??

[@katoness]

A pity people didn't do the same thing about Lockdown's.

[@Mollys-lips]

Oh stop ffs it's NOT in any way comparable. If u weren't there or lived in aftermath u just don't know.

[@katoness]

@@Mollys-lips Why not??

[@Paul5520]

Be quiet ye clown

[@anonymoushippopotamus3862]

@@Mollys-lips It's a different type of battle but if we had community like we had back then ,we wouldn't be experiencing lockdowns and mass vaccinations. We now have a 95% of the nation with unhealthy blood.

[@fivetwoeight528]

Still Alcohol is the No:1 killer

[@rosswynne2379]

Bless but they should also close the pub and brewery and jut keep on the weed

[@kid--presentable]

Give your head a wobble son

[@anonymoushippopotamus3862]

Weed is a lesser evil but it's still an evil and it is a gateway for most people to harder drugs.

[@gxhhher3896]

jaysus christ name of song boscos

[@Ggggggggfddxv]

Did you find out the name of the song?

[@gxhhher3896]

@@Ggggggggfddxv no

[@jordan7326]

Some of the people accused of selling where wrongly accused FACT!!!

[@patkearney9320]

True a lot of people weren't selling but where letting there gaff be used by addict's I was one I know, the neighbours had to live with us getting knocked up at all hours and kids seeing and hearing B..S talk.

[@JDoyle-r3b]

Eh I'd blame not the dunnes but the higher ups like the Mansfield no one marched on them

[@cristaogorman6457]

Hi, could I speak to you about this footage please? I am trying to track down ownership details. Thank you, Crista

[@dolierx1852]

What do you want to know ? Contact me: [e-mail]

[@cristaogorman6457]

@@dolierx1852 Hi, I emailed you on the above email when you get a chance to have a look. Thanks a million

[@lorrainelawlor7885]

Women in yellow sounds as if shes on something herself

[@SarahRichardson-x2g]

Dublin tday is way worse towards bck then dublins inner city is a sorry sight to see homelessness and illegal refugess gets treated and houses built personally how they want it and how many rooms they want , while the irish are living on the streets 2024 rufuges are in 5 star hotels put up by government while irish single mothers with 3 small kids and struggling make ends meet are dying in tents on the streets of my home 😢 to many are dead due to homelessness cold severe winters u have no other choice to drink vodka or whiskey to heat wrm u up or else die in your tent in winters it gets tuff -3 tonight rise up ireland refuges are in 5 star hotels fed washed and dole 233 euro a week along with it while irish with small kids are dying of pneumonia and hypothermia in there tents selling herself to put food in her tent she wants the best for her 3 kids will somebody plz raise this in the government buildings are own are dying like no tomorrow and turned blind eye to each one they are hang your heads in shame put the irish with small children in the 5 star hotels other way around vice versa instead of pyomg for growing men not even from this country living it up in 5 star warm hotel 😢

[@wayneneeson2093]

It's just accepted these days unfortunately

[@christyb271]

I.R.A Siin Fein stood by and allowed Dublin to be a wash with heroin.

[@dOlier]

Quite the opposite. A lot of the people at the core of CPAD were Sinn Fein. That was why the police were so tough on them. That was before the cease-fire & Good Friday, when Sec 31 applied, and any association with SF meant trouble.

[@garychan3354]

They did but then they changed their tune when they saw it was costing them votes!

[@nervesinapattern7261]

@@dOlier What’s your opinion on Alan Ryan? Did he actually effectively target drug gangs in Dublin?

[@anonymoushippopotamus3862]

The RA are drug dealing cunts!!! TRAITORS TO THIS LAND!!

[@anonymoushippopotamus3862]

@@nervesinapattern7261 No he was a front for extortion. The R.A have people selling for them. Traitors.

[@buckfastpk]

There's no way its as bad as that anymore. That was an epidemic and I think there's more "control" over it these days.

[@glenosullivan1701]

Are you joking 😆😆😆😆 100.x the amount of drugs in dublin

[@Mollys-lips]

Where are u living? U hvnt a clue , ye can't go ANYWHERE in town without crackheads &crack dealers , heroin still around but most hv moved onto the crack& pills are just everywhere. From the Ha'Penny bridge down is all crowds of addicts dealing&smoking out in the open .I can't count the amount of ppl I used to know (now long suffering addicts) that I've bumped into in the middle of the day on the street just standing or even slowly walking with a syringe in their hand or arm - the Guards aren't interested they're more concerned with fining ppl for breaking covid rules. I live in a gated community &I hv lost count of the amount of times I've come through my gate to see ppl in the lane, on front of cameras, smoking crack or cooking up& they don't try hiding when they see ye or do they care about being on camera bc they know there's no consequences . So ur comment makes NO SENSE whatsoever. U must not be a Dubliner or else u don't live in the city or the areas mentioned. That or ur trying to make the world think Dublin is somehow magically "fixed" now .

[@anonymoushippopotamus3862]

Its so much worse and fentanyl is coming to the streets for Christmas. We need community more than ever. The heroin is bad but it ain't the biggest of the evils around now.