Byrne brothers, Bodies found two miles apart
Garda divers will resume their search off Duncannon in County Wexford in the morning for Stephen Byrne, who has been missing from his Kilkenny home since Monday. A white escort car was earlier removed from the about twenty feet of water at the pier. The windows were open due to air pressure but it did not contain Mr Byrne's body. Earlier, the bodies of Mr Byrne's two sons, Alan, aged ten and Shane, six, were found on the shoreline about two miles apart. The bodies of the boys were bought to Waterford Regional Hospital for a post-mortem examination to be carried out by the Assistant State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy.
Earlier today hundreds of people packed St Patrick's church in Kilkenny for the funeral of the boys' murdered mother, Maeve Byrne. Mourners wept when Fr Martin Delaney told the congregation of concerns her sons had been found dead.
Just before 8.00am this morning a woman out walking on Duncannon beach in South Wexford, discovered the body of a young boy, a few hours later, a man searching Boyce's Bay near Hook Head found the body of another young boy. Chief Superintendent Tom Saunderson described the scene in Duncannon as harrowing and spoke of the shock amongst the community.
