President Mary McAleese has said people need to stop buying drugs if we want to put drug gang out of business.
She was speaking during a Late Late Show interview to mark her tenth year as President.
Mrs McAleese said it was a simple equation; sellers do not have a market unless they have buyers and people who buy the drugs are responsible for the sellers on the street.
She said we need to be cleverer and insightful about the way we tackle the problem.
On the issue of immigration, President McAleese said she was ‘very comfortable about what lies ahead’, adding that she believed Ireland could ‘make a really good go’ of being a multicultural country.
She said people countrywide were going to endless lengths to make newcomers to Ireland feel welcome.
President McAleese said we have a huge historical experience as emigrants ourselves and a tradition of being welcoming, and also pointed out that our economy needs immigrants.
