“Your mum is safe in heaven and now nothing can ever hurt her again.”

The mother of three who was murdered before her home was set alight was devoted to her children and to helping her community.

The home Olivia Dunlea shared with her three children in Passage West, Co Cork, bore all the hallmarks of typical family living.

I URGE the Government to send officially sealed containers of aid from the Irish people to Gaza and to put pressure on the EU as a whole to do the same.