Charleville tragedy: Some prayed, others just shook their heads

Grief-stricken and bewildered, they watched through tears as the bodies of three of their children began their final journey.

Heartbroken parents, Helen and Thomas O’Driscoll, who are still struggling to comes to terms with the appalling tragedy which befell their family at home in Charleville last week, brought the bodies of their boys — twins, Tom and Paddy, aged nine, and Jonathan, 21, from O’Malley’s funeral home back home last night to where the tragedy began to unfold last Thursday.

The twins, who were third-class pupils at the nearby Banogue National School in Croom, Co Limerick, were found stabbed to death in separate bedrooms at around 5pm that evening.