A mother who lost three sons in a murder-suicide in Charleville in North Cork last month has urged young people with mental health problems to seek help.

The mother of the nine-year-old twin boys murdered in north Cork earlier this month has said she forgives their adopted brother who killed them before taking his own life.

In heartrending scenes, as the body of 21-year-old Jonathan O’Driscoll was lowered into the ground, his mother Helen asked to say a few words.

At the top of the steps that led to Holy Cross Church in Charleville, a brown pony stood as still and as motionless as the small green and red barrel wagon with yellow wheels that was tied behind it.

Grief-stricken and bewildered, they watched through tears as the bodies of three of their children began their final journey.

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The school commute from Charleville to Banogue National School took in a chilling new sight on a balmy autumn morning.

The Cork community of Charleville is reeling after a murder-suicide left three members of the same family dead.