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Article: CLEAN UP; THIS JUNKIE YARD MESS; Fatima Mansions is one of the country's most dangerous drug havens. Community leaders say policing in the area is out of step with residents' needs.(Features)
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- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 25, 1999
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THE smack supermarket has re-opened for business in one of Ireland's most notorious drug dens.
Despite the work of the Drugs Task Force and the Drug Treatment Centre in Dublin's Fatima Mansions, the heroin scourge is back.
Community workers believe the anti-drugs crusade is slipping.
But residents in the inner city complex retain a fierce pride in their community and a strong team spirit in the face of the overwhelming odds.
Fatima tenants are determined not to let the drug pushers win.
Every evening parents and local activists ...