The Fallon brothers have shared a further €5.8m dividend windfall with other shareholders from their online Distilled SCH group of companies last year.

A senior investigator for the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc) has described the loss of evidence collected during the investigation into the murder of Garda Dick Fallon as “wholly unacceptable”.

A public house which had been in the possession of bank-appointed receivers has been reoccupied and reopened by its former owners.