‘Cowardly’ killer may have been known to garda

Tributes for murdered Garda Tony Golden have flooded in as one former assistant Garda commissioner said his “cowardly” killer may well have been known to him.

The Mayo-born garda, who had been living in Blackrock near Dundalk with his wife and three children, was shot as he escorted Siobhan Phillips away from the house she shared with Adrian Crevan Mackin in the Co Louth village of Omeath on Sunday evening.

Mackin first shot his girlfriend and then Garda Golden before turning the weapon on himself.