A majority of fathers who wipe out their families are not previously known to the police or mental health or drug services, according to a study.

Last Sunday they were in their local church, full of excitement and energy as they helped their grandmother collect leaflets and tidy up; yesterday they were buried side by side in the graveyard outside as their mother Kathleen, other family, friends, and community looked on.

The two boys whose bodies were found in the boot of their father’s car are expected to be buried in their home village at the weekend.

Gardaí have arrested the father of two young Co Carlow brothers found dead in Co Mayo earlier this week.

An East Cork woman whose husband killed their children before killing himself has accused the HSE of failing to properly investigate the circumstances which led to their deaths.

Parents gathered together in little huddles and went in and out of Ballinkillen NS yesterday, to hear how best they can tell their own children about what happened to Eoghan and Ruairí Chada, while just a few hundred metres away Kathleen Chada was attempting to take in the enormity of her loss.

Slain brothers Eoghan and Ruairi Chada were curled up beside each other and looked like they were asleep when gardaí opened the boot of the car driven by their father Sanjeev.

Postmortems have been carried out on the bodies of two young brothers who were reported missing from Carlow.