THE bodies of Sarah Hines, 25, and her children Reece and Amy were brought to a west Limerick church last night in a single oak coffin.

A MAN aged 31 was last night charged with the murders of two women and two children at Newcastle West, Co Limerick, last Monday.

THE stepfather of Newcastle West murder victim, Sarah Hines, has spoken of his horrific ordeal when he went to identify her body and those of her children, Reece, 3, and Amy, 5 months, at the morgue in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

A grief-stricken community will gather in Limerick today to remember a loving mother who was murdered with her two young children and a friend.

THE family of Sarah Hines, stabbed to death with her two young children and one of her closest friends, spoke yesterday of their worst nightmare.

A man suspected of murdering his ex-lover, her two children and friend allegedly took a kitchen knife from his rented home before the attack, it emerged tonight.

Relatives of murdered Limerick mother of two, Sarah Hines, have said their lives "will never be the same" because of her murder and the murder of her two children.

A man arrested in connection with the murders of four people in Co Limerick yesterday, has been taken to hospital in Cork for surgery.

Gardaí are appealing to the public for help in their investigation into the murders of four people including a toddler and a baby girl in Newcastle West in Co Limerick earlier today.