Mourners at the funeral mass of murder victim Tom O’Gorman heard the lay Catholic activist had been taken “all too quickly and all too cruelly”.

An Italian man accused of the murder of well-known pro-life campaigner and religious writer Tom O’Gorman at his north Dublin home could not come to court yesterday.

Friends and colleagues of killed researcher Tom O’Gorman have gathered to pray at a church he frequently used.

The Italian man charged with the murder of a well-known pro-life campaigner and religious writer told gardaí that he was guilty of the crime.

A 34-year-old Italian man replied “I am guilty” when he was charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a well known pro-life campaigner and religious writer at his Dublin home.

Murdered man Tom O’Gorman was an inoffensive man who would never fall out with anyone, friends said.

A man is due in court later this morning in connection with the death of Thomas O'Gorman.

A row over a move in a chess game is believed to have been a factor in the latest in a series of violent deaths across Ireland since the start of the new year.

A man was stabbed to death in a violent late night row over a chess game, detectives believe.

IN your report of a conference (May 5) supporting same-sex marriage, you quote Prof Sheila Greene of TCD to the effect that children raised by same-sex parents do just as well as those raised by opposite-sex couples.

I congratulate your columnist Rónán Mullen for highlighting the pathetic performance of junior minister Frank Fahey before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women last month.