The father and son who lost their lives in a suspected murder-suicide car crash are to be buried together in the same coffin, it has been confirmed.

Gardaí believe a Co Limerick man died with his young son, after deliberately driving his car into an oncoming articulated truck minutes after forcibly taking the boy from the home of his former partner, the child’s mother.

A child’s body lay concealed by a green blanket on a roadside.

Gardaí carefully placed a green-coloured blanket over the toddler, who was pronounced dead at the scene.