ROUND-THE-CLOCK social work cover for children at risk and families in crisis is unlikely to be implemented this year due to the slow progress of talks between the HSE and unions and the knock-on effects of the HSE recruitment freeze.

Post mortem examinations have revealed that the couple found dead along with their two children in Co Wexford over the weekend had died from gunshot wounds.

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

IN A Wexford village silenced by the death of a family, it was the innocent classmates of murdered Mark and Julie Flood who tried to articulate the enormity of emotions involved.

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.