Brutal Dublin murder dominates the campaign trail

As expected, the brutal murder of Dublin taxi-driver and sometime criminal Eddie Hutch at his Ballybough home on Monday brought law and order on to centre stage of this general election campaign, writes Daniel McConnell

We had wholesale condemnation from political leaders over the savage nature of the attack, which came just four days after the murder of David Byrne at the nearby Regency Hotel in Whitehall.

But yesterday, we also saw the announcement by Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald of €5m in additional funding for An Garda Síochána and a new permanent armed unit for Dublin.