Irish travel agents are poised to halt all Tunisian holidays pending updated travel and security advice from the Department of Foreign affairs.

Government and opposition parties have reacted with “revulsion” to the murders of 37 holidaymakers, including a mother of two from Ireland, at a beach-side Tunisian resort.

An Irish mother-of-two gunned down in the Tunisian beach resort massacre was taking her husband on holiday to help him recover from heart surgery, family friends have said.