Parents gathered together in little huddles and went in and out of Ballinkillen NS yesterday, to hear how best they can tell their own children about what happened to Eoghan and Ruairí Chada, while just a few hundred metres away Kathleen Chada was attempting to take in the enormity of her loss.

Slain brothers Eoghan and Ruairi Chada were curled up beside each other and looked like they were asleep when gardaí opened the boot of the car driven by their father Sanjeev.