ELAINE Hyland left her home soon after 9am on December 12, 2006. She was accompanied by her two daughters, aged four and two. The older girl was being dropped to school.

DETECTIVES investigating the gangland murder of crime boss Eamon Dunne are expected to make a significant breakthrough within the next week.

IN the space of 24 hours this week, two events highlighted the disturbing fault-line in attitudes to violence and gun crime in Irish society.