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17th August 2019
11:38am BST

The man, from Galway, remains in hospital in Tallaght.
Earlier this summer, the HSE issued a specific warning to festival-goers about drug use after several people were hospitalised at the Park Life festival in Manchester due to high-strength ecstasy and MDMA.
"There’s no point in just ignoring it," the HSE's national clinical lead in addiction services Dr Eamon Keenan told The Journal. "We’re saying, if you are taking drugs, don’t take a full tablet to start with – take a quarter of a tablet – then a few hours later take another quarter and see how you go."But one Garda source has warned against taking drugs at all, telling Independent.ie that there is no such thing as a "bad batch".
"There have been a number of incidents including deaths in recent weeks and while gardaí would be slow to say there is a bad batch of a particular kind of drug in existence, the reality is that people should be aware that taking any of these substances is very dangerous at any time."
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