‘We know Aisling is gone, we’re sure of that’

THREE young Irish women onboard the Air France airliner which vanished over the Atlantic Ocean were best friends who were forging out promising careers as doctors, it emerged tonight.

They were returning home after a holiday in Brazil with other friends who graduated with them from Trinity College Dublin two years ago.

They were named locally last night as Aisling Butler, of Roscrea, Co Tipperary, Jane Deasy of Dublin and Eithne Walls, originally from Belfast.