IRISH society is having to face a growing litany of parents who murder their own children before deciding to escape this life by suicide themselves.

CHILD rights campaigners have called for a 24-hour social work service as a matter of urgency on the third anniversary of the deaths of Sharon Grace and her two children in Wexford.

LONG-DELAYED plans to introduce 24-hour emergency care for at-risk children won’t be affected by the current recruitment freeze, say HSE bosses.

TALKS between the Health Service Executive (HSE) and unions are expected to begin by the end of this month regarding the provision of 24-hour social work cover in all parts of the country.

A DISTRAUGHT husband who lost his wife and children in a drowning tragedy is preparing for one of the toughest days of his life since their deaths.

THE Government’s response to the number of suicides in Irish society was last night described as pitiful.

THE father of the 28-year-old woman who drowned her two daughters before killing herself says improvements to suicide prevention services in Wexford announced yesterday are just too little, too late.

Neans McSweeney

Neans McSweeney, Barntown, Co Wexford

Post mortem examinations have confirmed a woman and her two daughters whose bodies were found in the River Slaney at the weekend died from drowning.