Mother and two sons found dead at house in south Dublin

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating the discovery of the bodies of a mother and her two sons at a house in the south of the city today.

All three were found just before noon in a downstairs room at the house on Killakee Walk in Firhouse.

The alarm is believed to have been raised by a relative who tried to gain access to the building this morning.

It is unclear how they died, but the house has been sealed off pending forensic examination and State Pathologist Marie Cassidy is due at the scene later this afternoon.