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Mother loses 2 sons to drug overdose in less than a month

Kellie Murphy
Kellie Murphy

11:27 27 Jan 2025


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Close to €14,000 euro has been fundraised for a Cork mother who lost two sons to drug overdoses in the space of a month.

Christine Kavanagh's 30 year old son Dillon died from an overdose in a homeless shelter in the city on the 23rd of January.

It happened just 3 weeks after her older 36 year old son Damien was found dead in his flat in Wale's on the 6th of January.

Christine, who lost 4 sons in 9 years, told the Neil Prendeville Show heroin addiction has had a detrimental impact on her children:

"I never blame my children for addiction, my first son passed away from a seizure. He was only diagnosed three weeks for epilepsy loss. it was just like no words can describe the way we feel as a family."


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