Body discovered at bottom of slurry pit

The brother of a man missing for almost two years said last night that he believes a decomposed body found at the bottom of a slurry pit yesterday is that of his missing loved one.

Gardaí said the remains, found in the Fawnagown area between Tipperary town and Bansha at about 2pm yesterday, had been lying in place for some time.

The decomposed body was found in a slurry pit not far from the place where 52-year-old grandfather Bobby Ryan from Boherlahan, near Cashel, was last seen in Jun 2011.