A 26-year-old man charged with the murder of two pensioner brothers has been further remanded in custody.

Murder victims Jack and Tommy Blaine’s cousin, Paul Dunne, talks about the men he knew so well

Just as the funerals of the brothers murdered in Mayo last week were under way news of another attack on an elderly couple came to light.

In recent years certainties once absolute and unquestioned have been exposed one after the other. Citadels have fallen and reputations lost almost irretrievably.