The tragic case in Cobh, Co Cork, highlights the treatment of those with mental disorders by the criminal justice system.

Garda plans to interview the injured daughter of a couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide have been put on hold to allow her time to recover.

The Health Service Executive is reportedly set to review the case of Cork man Michael Greaney - who died alongside his wife on Sunday - less than two months after leaving the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin.

The teenage daughter of a couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide wrote a poignant message on her Facebook page earlier this year urging people not to consider taking their own lives.

TO A TOURIST, the subdued mood in the seaport town of Cobh probably seemed no more than a dose of the post-Christmas blues, but for locals the picture was far darker.

An appalling tragedy has decimated yet another family, leaving the people of Cobh in a state of shock and underlining how important it is for society to confront the reality of mental health illness in a sympathetic and realistic manner.

A technical examination took place overnight at the Co Cork home where a husband and wife were stabbed to death.

The husband and wife who died in a multiple stabbing at their family home in Cobh, Co Cork today have been named locally as physiotherapist Michael Greaney, 63, and his wife Valerie, aged in her 60s.

A daughter of a couple stabbed to death in Cobh raised the alarm as the tragedy unfolded, it is being reported.

A husband and wife in their late 40s have been found stabbed to death at a house in Cobh in Co Cork.

A teenage girl is fighting for her life after two adults were stabbed to death at a house in Cobh, Co Cork today.

Two people have been found stabbed to death at a house in Cobh in Co Cork this afternoon.