Essex Police are investigating lines of inquiry to “establish whether there is a wider conspiracy involved” in the deaths of 39 people found in a lorry in Essex.

A retired Garda superintendent said he had been concerned that a top RUC officer repeatedly used the same car to travel to the Republic in the months before he was killed in an IRA ambush.

Tens of thousands of Ireland and England rugby fans today stood shoulder to shoulder as their historic clash at the home of Gaelic games began without incident today.