Animal Bars

A Cork shop has caused a stir on Twitter following their move to stop selling Animal Bars and falsely claiming An Garda Síochána requested the move.

This theory was backed up by a user who claimed to be a member of staff from the shop in question, ‘I work there and that’s exactly why… It’s not a new thing unfortunately.’ Just saw that there’s a convenience store in Cork which was asked, by Gardaí, to stop selling Animal Bars because they were being continually stolen by heroin users needing the foil.

The owner of a Cork city Centra store which displayed signage that An Garda Siochana asked him to pull Animal Bar chocolate from shelves has spoken out. On ...

"The Gardai do not or would not ask us to not sell any product. The owner of the much-valued local shop said he wanted to shield his staff from any "grief." Mr Whelton clarified that the popular Nestle bars were taken off sale "at our own discretion," and that gardai had not requested him to do so.

A GROCERY SHOP owner in Cork says Gardaí did not tell him to stop selling Animal Bars – despite a sign saying they did so going viral on social media ...

It is very hard to catch the [drug] dealers but the guards are actively pursuing it. The Animal Bars are wrapped in foil and then a paper wrapper. Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you

An image of the unusual request went viral on Twitter on Thursday (19 May). "We no longer sell Animal Bars," the sign read, along with "Request from Gardaí" ...

Does anyone really think someone chronically addicted to heroin is going to change their behaviour because the tinfoil in Animal Bars is harder to buy? "Does anyone really think someone chronically addicted to heroin is going to change their behaviour because the tinfoil in Animal Bars is harder to buy?" "Epitome of a failed drug policy that thinks an Animal Bar ban makes more sense than harm reduction approach to drug use," Ó Riordáin tweeted.

One shop has also stopped wrapping deli products in tinfoil after it emerged that heroin users were using it to prepare the drug for consumption.

Mr Whelton told thethat he included the words ‘request from gardaí’ in a bid to strengthen his own decision to take the bars off the shelves, but he accepted that he should not have included a reference to gardaí in the sign. There are so many ways for them to escape.” And the owner of one busy city Centra store, who has taken a popular kids' chocolate bar off his shelves, said he has told his staff to stop wrapping deli products in tinfoil after months of harassment from heroin users who have been using it to prepare the drug for consumption.