A post-mortem will be carried out today on the bodies of a mother and her child who died when their car was swept away in a river near Bantry in west Cork yesterday.
Mrs Orla O'Driscoll, who was in her early thirtis, and her daughter, Muire, died in the tributary of the Borlin river after Ms O'Driscoll managed to push her son, Fionn (6), to safety just 100 yards from where her husband, Finbarr, was at home oblivious to the tragedy unfolding nearby.
The accident happened at about 1.45 p.m. yesterday as Ms O'Driscoll was returning to the couple's farmhouse home at Milleens, in the Borlin valley, some eight miles northwest of Bantry after she had collected Fionn from the Gaelscoil in Bantry.