Efforts are continuing tonight to try and establish how two young children died at their home near the village of Ballynahown in Offaly. Three other members of the family are still being detained in hospital.

Report shows the Higgins home in Ballynahown.

To camera Jim Fahy reporting from outside the house.

Forensic experts examining house.

The reporter is Jim Fahy.

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