Two men have been jailed in connection with the "execution" of Aidan "The Beast" O'Driscoll, who was killed on a busy Cork street in a "well-planned" hit as part of an internal dispute between the Real IRA and the New IRA.

“Is this Ireland?” the woman asked on her way into the polling station, because that dazzling sunshine was just plain out-of-character for this rainy little isle.