On the 50th anniversary of the death of Piaras Beaslaí, Ryle Dwyer assesses how his biography of Michael Collins sparked a slew of rumours about the Big Fellow.

The mother of a man murdered as he sat in a car in an affluent area of Dublin today blamed his death on a five year long row over a motorbike.

Nobody is above the law, Justice Minister Michael McDowell insisted today as gardaí struggled to cope with a murderous surge in gangland violence in Dublin.