A cluster of girls jumped around a uniformed garda. “We were on the telly,” they all shouted together and bounced away, running up to the tape cordoning off the latest gangland murder.

Two brothers who stabbed a father and son during the course of a burglary in what a judge described as “having no legitimate excuse or motivation” were sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Wilson siblings Luke and Andrew sent gossips into overdrive on Friday when they hinted that brother Owen and Kate Hudson had wed in secret during a radio interview.