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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 fromseizure. 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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