Commissioner pays tribute to ‘heroic’ garda Tony Golden

Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan said people all over Ireland had gathered in Blackrock or watched the State funeral on television at home to “register a heroic death”.

“The pain and sympathy evoked by Tony’s death in the wider community has touched every one of us who works with and wears the blue uniform of An Garda Síochána,” she said.

“But the hero he became in death should not wipe from our memories the man he was in life. Above all Tony was a family man, a man living within a ring of love forged by himself and Nicola. The two of them had made several happy plans, and had hopes and dreams for their future together.