Gardaí are investigating after an elderly man was shot dead in Co Mayo.

Gardaí have arrested a number of people in Cork and Mayo following a violent bank holiday weekend which saw two men stabbed in unrelated incidents in Cork and a man shot dead in Mayo.

Saturday night’s events in Semple Stadium have left Cork hurling fans not so much angry – though they are a bit of that – as fretful and worried about the future and they are trotting out various remedies to get back on the winning trail.

A 43-year-old man was shot dead outside a farmhouse in Mayo, gardaí said tonight.