Although raised in a loving home and despite reassurance from his parents that he was loved, adopted Jonathan O’Driscoll was a tortured soul in the months before he killed his twin brothers and took his own life.

Struggling teachers are being helped out with a €20,000 gift left by a late Irish-American priest whose family got the same kind of help of their later father’s union more than 80 years ago.

The mother who lost three sons in a tragic murder-suicide in Co Cork in September has issued an emotional appeal for help as her family faces a €13,000 funeral bill.

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