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Responding to the continuing national concerns and incidents around the issues of head shops and legal highs, the Learning Curve Institute has announced that its highly topical one day workshop entitled Legal Highs - A description of the available head shops substances and their effect - is now coming to the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone on Friday April 30.

The Castlebar Joint Policing Committee was told this week that the head shops were always one step ahead of legislation, despite public concerns. Castlebar Mayor Cllr Michael Kilcoyne asked town engineer Sean Higgins what the current situation was in relation to proceedings taken by the council on the issue. Mr Higgins informed the meeting that the council was in the process of investigating the planning history of the two head shops in the town, and had sent a warning letter to one shop.

The proposal by the Government to ban a range of substances sold in head shops by the end of June is too little too late, according to Labour councillor Harry Barrett.

The fact that only 30 odd people, including seven or eight local councillors, turned up to the head shop protest last week raises some important questions.

The fact that only 30 odd people, including seven or eight local councillors, turned up to the head shop protest last week raises some important questions.

Education programmes in secondary schools may be the key to fighting the growing popularity of “head shops” in towns and cities throughout the country, according to former mayor Cllr Padraig Conneely.

The destruction of two head shops in Dublin city centre by fire in the space of a week is alarming for businesses close to the Galway premises, according to city councillor Niall Mc Nelis.

A couple of weeks ago I spoke about education, and how we should educate ourselves before jumping to conclusions.

The people of Kilkenny have spoken out about their fears about what is being sold in head shops in the city and the lack of regulation surrounding head shops — according to a survey carried out by the Kilkenny Advertiser this week.

The issue surrounding the legality of so called head shops has being raised once again this week at a seminar in Mullingar, by minister with responsibility for drugs John Curran. Mr Curran said that he is now going to tackle the issue in real terms by coordinating a government response to legality of head shops.