Limerick City and County Council is targetting houses linked to criminal gangs by adding them to the dereliction register.
The local authority has already marked as derelict a home with connections to a notorious long-standing organised crime group, as well as one which was used, as one local TD described it, as a ‘cocaine supermarket’.
By using the derelict sites register, any potential owners of the property would need to object and draw attention to any links with alleged criminality taking place inside the properties.
It comes against a backdrop of a rising crack cocaine problem in the region, with dedicated services founded earlier this year to deal with the fallout from the increase in use.
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