WERE it not for a quirk of fate, instead of watching last Sunday’s exciting Tipperary/Cork Munster championship match on TV in his native Dublin, David ‘Dotsie’ O’Callaghan could well have been a central part of the action in Thurles.

The man who shot dead five people at a Missouri council meeting was angry over thousands of dollars in parking tickets and citations piled up against his asphalt firm.