School says ‘Our focus is to help pupils with their loss’

School friends and teachers of Thomas and Paddy O’Driscoll at Banogue National School were trying to come to terms with news of the tragedy yesterday.

The twins had been pupils at the school for just over a year and had only recently started third class. Principal, Sheila Cagney said they were both loving, energetic and full of fun.

Supports were already being put in place as parents arrived with their children yesterday morning at the small Co Limerick school, around eight miles from Charleville, and three miles from Croom. It is a small school of around 50 pupils which had just three classes last year, one with only 15 pupils, and two special needs teachers.