THE HSE is to launch a special mental health campaign next week aimed at people suffering as a direct result of the recession.

Adrian Dunne asked his family priest days before killing his wife and children if people who take their own lives can get into heaven, an inquest heard today.

The inquests into the deaths of the Dunne family in Co. Wexford two years ago, are due to get underway today.

The inquests into the deaths of the Dunne family in Monageer, Co Wexford, are due to take place next week.

FEWER than 10 families have been recruited nationally under a new out-of-hours safety service to provide emergency foster care for children at risk – two years after a Co Wexford father orchestrated the deaths of his family.

THE Government was accused of covering up the events surrounding the Monageer deaths after parts of a report into the murder-suicide were blacked out.

An edited report into the horrific deaths of the Dunne family in Co Wexford should be read out under the legal protection of the Dáil, it was claimed today.

THE text message from Adrian Dunne’s mobile phone the morning he wiped out his family was almost tender in its simplicity.

GARDAÍ were first notified of concerns about the Dunne family on April 18, at least three days before they died, but no member of the force called to the door until April 23.

MORE than two years after the dreadful tragedy at Monageer, where Adrian Dunne murdered his wife Ciara and their two children Shania and Leanne before taking his own life, it is difficult to understand or even accept that it could have happened despite all the glaring warning signs.

A report into the deaths of the Dunne family in Co Wexford has found that the tragedy would not have been avoided even if gardaí or social services had called to the family home.

An edited version of the report into the Monageer tragedy is due to be published this Tuesday.

The small Co. Wexford community of Monageer is today marking the second anniversary of the deaths of the Dunne family in April 2007.

MEDICAL experts have warned that a serious shortage of psychologists could lead to a repeat of incidents like the Monageer tragedy where Adrian Dunne murdered his wife and two children before taking his own life.

A long-delayed inquiry into the tragic deaths of a family of four in their Co Wexford home was today received by two Government ministers.

An inquiry into the deaths of a family of four in their Co Wexford home last year has been delayed – for the third time.

THIS was supposed to have been a story consigned to the past, a shameful one that would never recur.

An inquiry into the deaths of a family of four in their Co Wexford home last year will report in September.

ONE week before the Flood family were lowered into their graves, they were swimming together at a hotel pool outside Wexford town.

RELATIVES on both sides of Saturday’s murder-suicide in Clonroche have united to help deal with the loss of the Flood family.

EIGHT years after Stephen Byrne drove the car containing his two sons and himself off Duncannon pier, three years after Sharon Grace drowned herself and her two daughters on a lonely stretch of Wexford coastline, and one year after the Dunne family were found dead in their house in Monageer, last weekend’s events in Clonroche have once again stunned the south-east.

IRISH society is having to face a growing litany of parents who murder their own children before deciding to escape this life by suicide themselves.

“THIS community has had more than its fair share of tragedy, so people really don’t know what to do any more.”

Two young children died in a fire, apparently started by their father after he murdered their mother, it emerged tonight.

A family of four found dead in the home in Wexford have been remembered at local mass services this morning.

The death of a family of four in a house which was gutted by fire was tonight being treated as suspicious.

ONE year after a tragedy that rocked the nation and raised significant questions about how we treat the issues of mental health and child protection, the grieving families of Adrian, 29, Ciara, 26, Lean, 5, and Shania, 3, Dunne are no closer to knowing the truth about how their loved ones died.

CHILD rights campaigners have called for a 24-hour social work service as a matter of urgency on the third anniversary of the deaths of Sharon Grace and her two children in Wexford.

The funerals will take place later this morning of the Dunne family, who were found dead at their Co Wexford home on Monday.

ADRIAN DUNNE had lived with a debilitating eyesight inherited condition since birth but was living a normal and untroubled life, according to a support group for blind people.

SOCCER, hurling and music were Adrian Dunne’s three major passions growing up in Co Wexford.

THEY were to be buried in their Liverpool tops and new Dora The Explorer denim jeans, little Leanne and Shania Dunne, in white coffins with pink stripes.

“NO PARENT should have to bury a child. But to bury two grandchildren as well is beyond belief.”

GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy yesterday set up an internal inquiry into how the force dealt with the tragedy in Co Wexford.

TÁNAISTE Michael McDowell yesterday said there were “very, very unique and unusual aspects” to the tragedy in Co Wexford and warned people about jumping to conclusions.

The Co Wexford village of Monageer is in shock following the deaths of a young couple and their two daughters whose bodies were found in the family home yesterday afternoon.