GARDAÍ are now certain that a mother and her two grown-up children drowned in a north Cork river last Sunday, and not on Monday as first thought.

The three people who drowned in a tributary of the River Blackwater in Co Cork last weekend may reportedly have been dead for 24 hours before they were discovered.

A SOLITARY bouquet of flowers lay at the waters edge yesterday as disbelieving neighbours prayed at the spot where the bodies of a mother and her two children were taken from a river in north Cork.

Moving tributes were paid today to a mum and her two children who died in a tragic swimming accident in Castletownroche yesterday.

Post mortem examinations are due to be carried out today on a mother and her two grown-up children who died in a drowning tragedy in north Cork yesterday.