The Ireland Under 18 men’s basketball team stormed home to an 84-69 point win over Malta this afternoon in their opening group game at the FIBA Under 18 Men’s European Championship Division C in Kosovo.

It was just before the start of class and the hallways were packed with students at their lockers or chatting with friends.

A boy with a “blank expression” stabbed and slashed 21 pupils and a security guard with two kitchen knives at his high school before being tackled by an assistant principal.