Final preparations are being made in Ballinkillen in Co. Carlow for the funerals of two brothers found dead in Mayo on Monday.

Family and close friends have been paying their respects at the family home today where Eoghan and Ruairi Chada are lying in repose ahead of their requiem mass tomorrow.

Forensic tests are now also underway at a location close to where the brothers bodies were found inside their fathers crashed car near Westport.

Meanwhile Irish Independent journalist Cormac McQuinn said their father Sanjeev is still being questioned about their deaths by Mayo Gardai.

"I gather they got a bit of an extension due to a rest period from the questioning last night. We should know more later this afternoon in terms of what's going on there. They have shifted the focus of the investigation to another location in Co. Mayo, Ballintubber Abbey where it's believed the two boys were killed before the car crash happened in Westport."