Families await return of Irish couple

The families of a young couple who died in a suspected drowning accident on the Italian island of Sardinia, are waiting to find out when the bodies can be returned to Ireland.

The couple, 25-year-old Barbara Mary Reeves from Pennywell in Limerick and her 32-year-old boyfriend, Gerard Sheehan O’Brien of Meelick Co Clare, died after they got into difficulties in the hotel swimming pool at the Italian holiday resort.