Death of Tony Golden is ‘like losing one of the family’
These are the qualities ascribed by friends and colleagues to Garda Tony Golden yesterday as they struggled to come to terms with the “darkness” that enveloped Louth — again.
When he and Siobhan Phillips — who was attempting to leave her violent partner — stepped into her home at Number 16, Mullach Alainn, in Omeath, at 6.30pm on Sunday, they didn’t stand a chance.
