The head of a children’s charity and the manager of a Galway-based company have told of their encounters with conwoman Julia Holmes, who is believed to have been found dead with her partner Tom Ruttle in their home in Askeaton, Co Limerick, on Monday morning.

Further tests are to be carried out on the bodies of a man and a woman found at a house near Askeaton in Co Limerick yesterday.

Neighbours of a farmer believed to have been found dead in a house with his fraudster girlfriend have spoken of their "complete shock" after two bodies were discovered in Co Limerick this morning.