The colourful and corrupt world of Mr Big

CHARMING, complex, controversial and corrupt. Reprehensible but not entirely unlikeable.

Emotions evoked by Liam Lawlor will remain mixed after his colourful world came to an abrupt end on a dark street in Moscow on Saturday morning.

The story also managed to push the Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis off the front pages of most weekend newspapers in an irony which Lawlor himself would have appreciated more than most.