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Funeral held for NI drowning victims

A joint funeral service was held in Northern Ireland this morning for the two young boys who drowned in a private swimming pool near Newry.

Four-year-old Shea Laverty and two-year-old David Smith drowned on Friday evening after crawling through a fence into the grounds of a house.

The two lived close to each other at Ardaveen Mews, a relatively new housing estate off the Dublin Road.