Sorry fin, while trying to understand I got muddled up in the point(s), I don't know how well you know the area or even if you have a vested interest in plugging the place, who knows, but the fact that Ashbourne has a drug problem is nothing new to locals or even to those of us who have lived just across the fields from the place. It was always a "pass-through" village, primed for commuter-dormer status, and not it is so. A by pass eliminates traffic congestion but there remains problems of an older established group of communities with a large influx of new people from around, and now indeed outside the country, and the problems that local gardai have had with drugs. I don't know if you're a member of the public, but the town has been in the news often enough in relation to drug seizures etc. Again, glossing over it's simple to say it's the same in any town, true, but the question was about Ashbourne as a place to live, when truly staying on topic.