Askeaton deaths: Separate funerals for couple found at farmhouse

The couple found dead in a Co Limerick farmhouse on Monday are likely to have separate funerals, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Gardaí now believe that Thomas Ruttle, aged 56 and Julia Holmes, 63, died from a drugs overdose or by taking poison in a suicide pact.

Mr Ruttle will be laid to rest in the family grave in the Church of Ireland cemetery in Askeaton.