There's a large article in the Belfast Telegraph today on cocaine, and how it has insinuated itself into elite levels of Irish society. Like grabby opening paragraphs? How's this:
The airline pilot, the nun, and the government minister. Everybody in Ireland wants to know who they are. Then there's the teacher, the nurse, the lawyer and the top doctors. All are said to admit, candidly but anonymously, that they snort cocaine. The pilot, in fact, says he takes it in the cockpit.
This illumination of Ireland's closet coke culture comes by way of 'High Society', a two-part television documentary shown on Ireland's RTE. Although this may be shocking for Ireland, I can only imagine how many high-society American counterparts there must be. Ever since Miami Vice in the '80s cocaine has been chic. Of course people with money will want to try it, and do more, and give it to their friends...
