Post mortems will be carried out today on the bodies of five members of the same family who were found dead after a murder suicide in Co Cavan yesterday.

 Alan Hawe, who was in his 40s and originally from Co Kilkenny, was found dead by Gardaí alongside his wife Clodagh who was in her thirties in the downstairs of their house at Barconey outside Ballyjamesduff yesterday morning.

Upstairs, the bodies of their three young sons, brothers Liam aged 13, Niall who was 11, and 6-year-old Ryan were also found.

Psychologists have been dispatched to Castlerahan National School where Alan Hawe taught and where Niall and Ryan were pupils to help teachers and pupils to come to terms with the tragedy.

Post mortems will begin at Our Lady of Lourdes in Drogheda today.