The bodies of five-year-old Ruairi and 10-year-old Eoghan are being returned home to Ballinkillen near Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, for their funerals in the coming days.

Gardaí have arrested the father of two young Co Carlow brothers found dead in Co Mayo earlier this week.

Parents gathered together in little huddles and went in and out of Ballinkillen NS yesterday, to hear how best they can tell their own children about what happened to Eoghan and Ruairí Chada, while just a few hundred metres away Kathleen Chada was attempting to take in the enormity of her loss.

Postmortems have been carried out on the bodies of two young brothers who were reported missing from Carlow.

Gardaí were last night waiting to question a man in connection with the death of his two children after a nationwide search for them.

Relatives were last night trying to comfort Kathleen Chada, the devastated mother of Eoghan, 10, and Ruairi, 5, whose bodies were discovered just hours after gardaí issued a major alert in a bid to establish their whereabouts.

Two children have died in a car accident after they went missing with their father.

Gardaí probing the murder of pensioner Eugene Gillespie are investigating an anonymous emergency phone call to their station on Thursday.

Gardaí are trying to trace the final movements of 67-year-old Eugene Gillespie before he was “brutally murdered” by burglars at his home in Sligo town.

Hilda Jordan yesterday did what no woman should ever have to as she buried her husband and brother within a matter of hours.

FROM Australia I wish to congratulate, and thank, the Irish electorate for their mature thinking and casting of their votes last Friday.

A DISPUTE between a food manufacturer and four of its employees over the alleged accessing of confidential company information is due to be settled in the High Court today.