A DISTRAUGHT husband who lost his wife and children in a drowning tragedy is preparing for one of the toughest days of his life since their deaths.

BARRY GRACE has found solace in the most unthinkable of places.

THE Government’s response to the number of suicides in Irish society was last night described as pitiful.

THE father of the 28-year-old woman who drowned her two daughters before killing herself says improvements to suicide prevention services in Wexford announced yesterday are just too little, too late.

Neans McSweeney, Barntown, Co Wexford

THE tiny white coffins containing the remains of four-year-old Michaela Grace and her three year-old sister, Abbi, will be placed side by side in the same grave at around noon today in a cemetery a mile from their home.

Post mortem examinations have confirmed a woman and her two daughters whose bodies were found in the River Slaney at the weekend died from drowning.

EVEN in death, they were inseparable.

A YOUNG mother who drowned her two daughters before killing herself had been reported to social services in the last few weeks by a relative.

A MOTHER who drowned her two daughters, then killed herself, was separated and involved in a custody battle over the girls.

The bodies of a mother and her two children have been found on a beach in County Wexford this morning.