Over the weekend the old toxins that have, for decades, sustained tribal differences, that the great majority of people on this island have put to one side, resurfaced.

The PSNI are treating the desecration of wreaths at the site of the IRA murder of 18 soldiers as a hate crime amid reports that football fans were to blame.

Enda Kenny has said the Government remains fully committed to building a bridge at Narrow Water linking counties Down and Louth.