Postmortems on bodies of Dublin teenagers who died in Greece to take place on Wednesday

Bodies of Leaving Cert students Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall, who died on the Greek island of Ios, will be released for repatriation after postmortem

The postmortems on the bodies of Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall, the Dublin teenagers who died within 24 hours of each other while on a holiday on the Greek island of Ios at the weekend, will take place on Wednesday, an official at the forensic office confirmed.

Now police on the island say they cannot rule out the possibility that drinks were spiked - but they say that no evidence of criminality has been discovered yet and that the post-mortem examinations of both men will ultimately determine the course of the investigation.

Earlier on Tuesday morning, the bodies of the two boys were taken off the island by ferry.

Hundreds of Irish students lined the road down to the port, with the group of St Michael’s College classmates standing in a guard of honour and placing yellow roses on the coffins as a sign of friendship.

A small bouquet of flowers was laid in the area where Mr O’Donnell’s body was found after falling. The site is off a path at the back of a hotel on the outskirts of the main town of Hora, where the terrain is a steep slope down a rocky hill.

Meanwhile, back in Ireland, a service was held in memory of both boys at their local school of St Michael’s in Ballsbridge. Among those at the service were past pupils who had helped search for Andrew after he went missing.