Relatives comfort mother of dead Chada brothers

Relatives were last night trying to comfort Kathleen Chada, the devastated mother of Eoghan, 10, and Ruairi, 5, whose bodies were discovered just hours after gardaí issued a major alert in a bid to establish their whereabouts.

Mrs Chada, originally named Kathleen Murphy, who lived in Ballinkillen outside Bagenalstown in Co Carlow with her husband, Sanjeev, and their two sons, reported the three missing at about 1.30am yesterday.

Mr Chada, 43, who is originally from India but has been living in Ireland for many years, left the family’s home at about 6.30pm and said he was taking the two boys for a bowling trip to the Dome Bowling Centre in Carlow town.