VIDEO: The derelict Navan house used as a drug den

Navan Municipal District Council has been asked to carry out a health and safety assessment of a public park park that backs onto a derelict house which has been recently used as a drugs den.

'One of the worst places for drug abuse he had ever seen', was how Cllr Joe Reilly described the derelict house and entrance to Andy Brennan Park in Navan.
The Meath Chronicle visited the building which was easily accessible from front and rear before Christmas and saw first hand the evidence of drug abuse that had taken place inside.
Strips of tin foil scorched with the stains of cooked heroin litter along with syringes with needles still attached were scattered in every room of the house.
At the December meeting of Navan Municipal District Council Cllr Reilly asked the council to carry out a health and safety assessment of the area at the entrance to the park.

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He was told that the Council's Environment Department was arranging to have an assessment carried out to determine is any action was required under the Derelict Sites or Sanitary Services legislation.
The end of terrace building is one of four empty houses on the block. The other three premises are boarded up and inaccessible. 
New measures had been taken over Christmas to seal off the end of terrace house and at time of going to press it was all locked up.
Responding to the issues raised at the Municipal District Council meeting the owner of the property told the Meath Chronicle in December he was 'perturbed' that it was constantly being broken into and vandalised.
'It has been boarded up several times, but they break in again. There doesn't seem to be any way of restraining them. They seem to have no concept of private property,' he said.

See this week's Meath Chronicle for more.