An inquest into the deaths of a family and a teenager who died in a plane crash was opened and adjourned today.

Hundreds of mourners gathered together tonight at a memorial service held for a family and a teenage friend who died after their light aircraft crashed in a remote mountain region.

IT WAS meant to be a fun bank holiday weekend away but it all went horribly wrong in bad weather on the Wicklow Mountains.

Gardaí have confirmed the bodies of four people – including two teenage boys – were tonight recovered from the wreckage of a UK-registered light aircraft in the Wicklow mountains.

Gardaí have confirmed one body has been discovered in the wreckage of a UK-registered light aircraft in the Wicklow mountains.