Some 88pc of those addicts were opiate users (for example, heroin), 6pc were cannabis users, and 3pc were ecstasy users (most ecstasy users think they can control the drug and don't go for treatment). But yet again, the figures are just the tip of the iceberg. If you take into a

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FEELING lucky? For the superstitious, this has not been a good year. We have already had two Friday the 13ths, and another one is about to hit us tomorrow. It sounds like a very bad stroke of luck if three of the 13ths fall on a Friday, and indeed it is impossible to have any mo

who acted as a sort of rent-a-guest at short notice for any dinners or other formal functions at which 13 people were present. In 1967, a group of 13 Americans launched a campaign to rid the country of all this superstition. Their first act was to rent a plot of land exactly 13

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"I'm not bothered. I think that it'll be just the same as any other day." Clontarf "I'm not superstitious at all. I wouldn't be nervous about going out." ROSS FOX Blackhall Place • • 4 EAMON O'REILLY

House break addict jailed for a year A HEROIN addict who broke into a house and entered the bedroom where a 70-year-old woman was sleeping, has been jailed for a year at Kilmainham District Court. Andrew Fermoyle (30). of Cashel Avenue, Drimnagh pleaded guilty to breaking into a

THE High Court will next month fix a date for the hearing of a case involving an Irish speaker contesting a drink driving charge on the grounds that he is entitled to have certain State documents in the case translated into the native language. Seamus O'Beolain, Aid Choill Beith

AN action* a sem* man attacked mil sericiudy alien a gins raided the Semperit tyre plant M Dublin, has been settled, the High Court has been told. Father three Richard McGarr of Ciehlawn Park. Taught, Dubin, had his dui fractured, leaving him with speech diffiailties is the atta