18-year-old Alex Ryan had been in a serious condition after taking the drug ‘N-bomb’ last week.
Alex Ryan was one of six partygoers hospitalised after taking the hallucinogenic drug ‘N-bomb’. He had been treated at Cork University Hospital this week after he took ill at a house party in Cork city.
Fr John Fitzgerald, the Millstreet parish priest, said the people are in shock at the death of the teenager:
“It’s very, very sad news. There was a lot of uncertainty in the town last night, people were just waiting to hear,” he said.
“There will be a lot of shock and sadness among his peers. It’s such a tragic loss of a precious young life,” he said, adding that Alex was a student at Millstreet Community School.
The dreaded party drug is said to set people “insane” where they have tried to chew pavements, fly and even punch walls.