Dublin’s crime crisis: ‘In Temple Bar, I watched as young boys peddled drugs to tourists’

Employees in city centre say youths dealing openly in the area are just ‘pawns in a game, with the odds stacked against them’

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They are as young as 12 and while others their age are playing soccer or Nintendo Switch, these kids are in Temple Bar, selling cocaine, ecstasy and methamphetamine to tourists.