This month on Tipperary's Hidden History, Conor takes us back to the early years of the Irish Free State. Even by 1931, while the bullets and landmines of the Civil War had long fallen silent there were still sporadic episodes of violence and murder.

Tipperary town was visited by one such reminder of darker times when a young Garda superintendent returned home from work late one night in March.

Thanks to an ambush at his gate he did not live to see the next morning.