The mother of the nine-year-old twin boys murdered in north Cork earlier this month has said she forgives their adopted brother who killed them before taking his own life.

The mother of the twins stabbed to death by their brother in north Cork earlier this month has told how she prayed they were ok as she travelled from Waterford to their home.

In heartrending scenes, as the body of 21-year-old Jonathan O’Driscoll was lowered into the ground, his mother Helen asked to say a few words.

The glorious autumn sunshine seemed inappropriate on a grief-laden afternoon, as Jonathan O’Driscoll was buried in Kilmallock graveyard alongside his maternal grandparents, Margaret (Dicey) Conway and her husband Paddy.

At the top of the steps that led to Holy Cross Church in Charleville, a brown pony stood as still and as motionless as the small green and red barrel wagon with yellow wheels that was tied behind it.

The deaths of twin boys and their older brother in an apparent murder-suicide should be a lesson for people to do more to get young men to talk about their problems, their funeral has heard.

The three O'Driscoll brothers - who died in Co Cork last week - have been described as lovable and full of fun.

Grief-stricken and bewildered, they watched through tears as the bodies of three of their children began their final journey.

Twin brothers who were stabbed to death before their older brother took his own life will be buried today in their communion suits.

The removals of three brothers - all victims of last week's double-murder/suicide tragedy in North Cork - is underway.

The removal service for the three brothers found dead in north Cork will take place later.

Funeral details have been released for three brothers found dead in Co Cork.

A leading psychiatrist has said the exact circumstances surrounding the murder-suicide of twins Paddy and Thomas O’Driscoll and their brother Jonathan needed to come to light before the stunned local community of Charleville could come to terms with what had happened.

The school commute from Charleville to Banogue National School took in a chilling new sight on a balmy autumn morning.

A consultant psychiatrist and expert on suicide has spoke of the necessity for the friends and classmates of murdered twins Thomas and Paddy O’Driscoll to be told the truth of what happened to them in an age-appropriate way.

Irish research influenced key recommendations in the World Health Organisation’s first global report calling for more suicide prevention strategies.

THIS is a tragedy and we don’t know the circumstances or facts as yet.

School friends and teachers of Thomas and Paddy O’Driscoll at Banogue National School were trying to come to terms with news of the tragedy yesterday.

It is a harsh reality that over time, once the names of tragic twins Thomas and Paddy O’Driscoll disappear from the headlines, they will forever remain in statistics as some of the country’s youngest victims of murder-suicide.

Post mortem examinations are taking place on the bodies of the three O'Driscoll brothers who died in Co Cork yesterday.

The school of Thomas and Patrick O’Driscoll, who were found dead in their home just outside Charleville, Co Cork yesterday, has described the twins as "loving, energetic and full of fun".

Post-mortem examinations are to be carried out on three members of a family, including twin boys, suspected of dying in a double murder and suicide.

It is just over two years, almost to the day, since the tragic death of a child devastated the north Cork town of Charleville.

Children, watched by their parents, took to the swings in the local playground on the main street as dusk broke in Buttevant, blissfully unaware of the tragedy that had unfolded in the nearby park, just down the little lane across the road, only hours before.

As the bright autumnal sunshine faded over the O’Driscoll family home yesterday evening, the set of swings and a trampoline where twins Thomas and Patrick would often have played, stood in grotesque contrast to the Garda tape which surrounded the entrance.

The Cork community of Charleville is reeling after a murder-suicide left three members of the same family dead.

People in the north Cork town of Charleville are grappling with a devastating family tragedy, after the bodies of three brothers were found in two separate locations.

The bodies of three brothers have been found at two separate locations in Co Cork.

Gardaí investigating the discovery of the bodies of twin boys in north Cork, have discovered a third body.