Investigation reveals date of family drowning tragedy

GARDAÍ are now certain that a mother and her two grown-up children drowned in a north Cork river last Sunday, and not on Monday as first thought.

The bodies of Ita Noonan, aged 49, and her children David, aged 24, and Emma, aged 20, were discovered in the River Awbeg, near the village of Castletownroche, on Bank Holiday Monday.

A large crowd attended their removal last night, from Hawe’s Funeral Home in Charleville to St Andrew’s Church in Kilfinane, County Limerick, including senior gardaí.