Gardaí investigating the deaths of Thomas Ruttle and his partner, Julia Holmes at the Ruttle family home in Co Limerick now suspect the couple may have taken a poisoned liquid in a double suicide pact.

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.

Gardaí are waiting for post mortems to confirm whether the bodies of two people found in a house this morning are that of an alleged fraudster grandmother and her boyfriend.