Post-mortems are due to be carried out on the bodies of four people including two young children found dead in Limerick yesterday.
A 31 year old man arrested in Kilkee in connection with their violent deaths is still be quizzed by gardaí .
Its believed the four victims were stabbed to death and may have been killed the previous night while gardaí are investigating if the suspect may have been in West Clare since Monday night.
The bodies of 25 year old Sarah Hines and her children, 3 year old Reece and five-month-old Amy Hines, were found at a house in Newcastle West along with a friend just before 2 yesterday afternoon.
Two hours later a 31 year old man was arrested in a pub in Kilkee after a major garda operation involving armed members of the regional response unit, the detective branch in Ennis and local Clare gardaí .
It’s reported the suspect phoned a retired garda who contacted officers in Newcastle West who then made the grim discovery – while the call was later traced to a phone box in West Clare seaside town.
It’s believed the two women and children may have been stabbed the previous day and gardaí are also investigating whether the murder suspect may have been in Kilkee since Monday night.
A telephone kiosk in the seaside town was sealed off by gardaí for a technical examination and they are investigating the possibility he came to Kilkee by bus
Meanwhile The State Pathologist Dr Maire Cassidy is due to visit the scene at a house in Newcastle West today and the bodies of the two women and children will then be taken to hospital for post-mortems
