A prayer service held for a mother and two children killed in a shooting incident in Co Fermanagh has been told that “we cannot rationalise what should never have taken place”. Vanessa Whyte, 45, a vet originally from Co Clare,

A mother and her two children have been killed in a shooting in County Fermanagh. The victims of the gun attack in Maguiresbridge were a boy, a girl and a woman in her 40s. A man - who is a member of the same household - is being treated for serious injuries at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

A man, who is a member of the same household, was seriously injured in the shooting in the village of Maguiresbridge, about 75 miles (120km) southwest of Belfast.