Detective ‘died serving community and country’

They came to the Mansion House in their uniforms in pairs and groups, gardaí in stab vests, and schoolgirls in knee socks.

Young and old, bearing shopping bags or briefcases, they were all driven by the same sense of shock and the shared urge to show their solidarity.

A signature in a book of condolence wasn’t much, they said, but it was important to do something to say the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohue was wrong.