‘That justice has yet to be served makes this harder’

Last week, Adrian Donohoe should have been celebrating his birthday, surrounded by his wife Caroline and two children Amy and Niall.

He should have been laughing and eating, busy throwing his children up into the air, out having a puck around. All the things dads would do.

But instead of turning 42, the detective garda’s life ended at age 41, when he was blasted in the head at close range, without warning and without a chance to draw his weapon.