Slain Tony Golden was popular, diligent, outgoing

A family man, a son of Co Mayo, adopted by Co Louth — Garda Tony Golden was, according to those who knew him, a popular man with a heightened sense of civic duty.

Born and raised in the village of Culleens near Ballina, he was raised alongside his four brothers and younger sister by parents David — a farmer and a taxi driver in Ballina — and Bríd.

The middle child in the family, he attended the local national school, Scoil Naomh Bríd.