THE remains of one of the three young Irish doctors lost in the air crash off Brazil five weeks ago are on their way home after a positive identification was made from a body recovered from the sea.

HOPES grew for three Irish families that their loved ones’ final resting place will be traced after wreckage thought to be from the missing Air France plane was spotted in seas off the coast of northern Brazil.

IN competitive fields, friendships can suffer but Jane Deasy, Aisling Butler and Eithne Walls weren’t about to let their’s become a casualty.

Families of two young Irish doctors on board the Air France airliner that vanished over the Atlantic spoke today of their heartbreak at the loss of their daughters.