Fighting crime - Delays on DNA law are a scandal

The condemnation of the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in Louth last Friday evening has been widespread and sincere.

Tomorrow’s State funeral will be a sober and distressing affair, especially for Det Garda Donohoe’s wife and children, family, friends, and colleagues. His community, his colleagues, and this society will publicly express their — our — deep revulsion at the cold-blooded, unprovoked killing.

Inevitably every political party in the State will be represented at the funeral and, inevitably, each will echo the other in their condemnation of the first murder of a garda in 17 years.