SHARON GRACE’S death and the drowning of her two daughters should never have occurred, a coroner has said.

A jury today branded the failure of health services to change their procedures following the tragic drowning of a mother and her two young children an absolute disgrace.

THE father of the 28-year-old woman who drowned her two daughters before killing herself says improvements to suicide prevention services in Wexford announced yesterday are just too little, too late.

Neans McSweeney, Barntown, Co Wexford

The national breast screening programme is being extended.