Greg Fox, the man charged with murdering his wife and two children in Castledaly, Co Westmeath last weekend, failed to show up at Athlone District Court today.

A mother and her two young sons, who were murdered yesterday in Co Westmeath, died from multiple stab wounds, post mortems have revealed.

The results of post mortem examinations on the bodies of a mother and her two sons who were murdered near Athlone are expected to be known later today.

The assistant State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, has arrived in Co Westmeath to establish the cause of death of a mother and her two sons.

The bodies of a mother and her two children have been discovered in a house in Castledaly, a small village just outside Athlone in Co Westmeath.