A young man threatened to smash up his grandfather’s house and gardaí arrived to find the pensioner visibly shaken and in fear.

Though it had been some time, at least a couple of Ice Ages, since The Menu had last trod barefoot through the fields to school, several years ago he returned to the groves of Academe.

Gardaí probing back-to-back gangland murders fear further violence after it emerged that one of Ireland’s top crime bosses is the godfather to a child of the latest victim.

Gardaí are looking at the possibility that two recent murders in Clondalkin in Dublin are linked.