Bodies of Flood family released for burial

THE four bodies of the Flood family were last night released to grieving relatives anxious to bring their loved ones home for burial in Wexford.

North Wexford coroner Dr Sean Nixon authorised their release after the state pathologist’s office said it had completed its examination on the victims of last weekend’s murder-suicide in Clonroche.

On Saturday, Diarmuid Flood, 41, killed himself and set his home ablaze after shooting his wife Lorraine, 38, and murdering their two children Mark, 6, and Julie, 5, in their beds.