Grieving mum thanks public for funeral donations

A mother who lost three sons in a murder-suicide in North Cork in September has thanked the public for donations she has received towards the €13,000 funeral bill.

Helen and Thomas O’Driscoll lost three sons when nine-year-old twins, Patrick and Thomas, were killed and their older brother, Jonathan, 21, who then took his own life.

A fundraising walk to raise money for the funeral expenses took place in Charleville yesterday, on what would have been the twins’ 10th birthday.