Limerick to remember murder victims

A grief-stricken community will gather in Limerick today to remember a loving mother who was murdered with her two young children and a friend.

Mass will be said this afternoon at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Newcastle West for 25-year-old Sarah Hines, her three-year-old son, her five-month-old baby girl and her friend Alicia Brough from Cork.

The four bodies were found on Tuesday in a house in the Hazelgrove estate in the town.

Meanwhile, post mortems have revealed that the Butler sisters - who were found dead in a house in Cork - also on Tuesday - died from asphyxia.

Zoe and Ella - who were seven and two - were found in the fishing village of Ballycotton shortly after their father John was killed in a car crash.

A post mortem on his body revealed he died from burn injuries and smoke inhalation.