Irish Examiner View: Tragedy shows our core values - Det Garda Colm Horkan

Flowers left at the scene in Castlerea Co Roscommon where Detective Garda Colm Horkan was shot dead. Photo: Colin Keegan/Collins

How a society reacts to an outrage, or even how a society judges an event an outrage, is revealing.

Those reactions express core values more accurately than nearly any other metric.