A Dublin man accused of murdering his father by striking him in the head told gardaí he hit the victim with a hurley after the hammer he was using fell out of his hand.

A 24-year-old man was today charged with the murder of his father, Thomas Brady, on Dublin’s south side last week.

NOTHING illustrates the cruelty of modern politics like the stitching up of Royston Brady in the run-up to the European elections, and his eventual vindication when it was too late to do him any good.

I’VE met Royston Brady only once, briefly, before he became the poster-boy for failure. And I feel guilty as hell towards him.