Dublin. He was posthumously awarded the Garda Siochana's Scott Medal, for heroism in the line of duty. Statement by Saor Eire During the subsequent Garda investigation of the murder, which included multiple arrests of people in the Irish Republic known to have associations with Saor Eire, and a public issuance of a wanted list by the Government of several named individuals sought in connection with the crime, Saor Eire's Command issued a public statement denying the involvement of its members in the robbery and shooting, and calling for a public enquiry to be set up by the Irish Government into it. A subsequent statement from the organization referred to the Irish Government's investigation of the murder as 'bogus', and described the ongoing criticism in the Dublin press of Saor Eire for the murder as 'hysterical', and 'anti-socialist' in motivation, ending its statement with: "We deny that Garda Fallon was killed ... in the course of protecting the public. He died protecting the property of the ruling class, who are too cowardly and clever to do their own dirty work". Government collusion with paramilitaries allegations Shortly after the murder persistent rumours began circulating in the Dublin press, informed by high level sources within the Garda and political circles in the Dail, that the perpetrators of the murder from the Saor Eire organisation had been given illicit protected status by the Irish Government after the shooting. The rumours further stating that this was carried out in order to cover up collusion between highly placed people within the Government, and the Dublin political class, who were involved in facilitating the illegal passage of fire-arms through the Irish Republic into Ulster to equip Irish Republican paramilitary groups that were forming there in the midst of the communal violence that had broken out in 1969, and that the firearms used in the murder of Garda Fallon could potentially be traced to an origin that would reveal such activity. Gerry L'Estrange, a Member of Parliament, stated on the floor of the Dail on 4 November 1971 that one of the three man robbery team that had killed Garda Fallon had been escorted out of the Irish Republic into Ulster and the United Kingdom via an Irish Government state car, under the authority of a Government Minister. L'Estrange didn't name the Minister at the time, but press commentary later, in conjunction with Garda off-the-record sources, stated that