Brother and sister swept to deaths in sea tragedy

Post mortem examinations were due to be carried out today on the bodies of a five-year-old boy and his teenage sister who died as they played in the sea with an inflatable raft.

Niall Murphy and his sister Patricia, 15, from Belmullet, Co Mayo, got into trouble yesterday afternoon when they were 100 yards from the shore and were carried away by an offshore wind.