Fifty years ago Irish jockey Frankie Shortt sat aboard Aussie at the start of the Aintree Grand National. Little could have prepared him for the next eight minutes and one of the most amazing runnings of the world’s most famous steeplechase.

The mother of a teenager found stabbed to death in Killarney almost three years ago talked yesterday of the devastating effect the death of her eldest son has had on her family.

A 19-year-old student was found guilty of conspiring to assault a teenager two years ago on the night he died from a single stab wound.

Detectives were tonight investigating the murder of a 17-year-old less than a quarter of a mile from his family home.