Waterford double murder victims identified

A man was being questioned by gardai today after the early-hours deaths of a middle-aged man and woman in locations five miles apart.

The 40-year-old man was detained near the coastal town of Ardmore, in Co Waterford, close to where the body of a woman in her mid-40s, named locally as mother-of-three Joan Power, was found at her home. She was reported to have been stabbed.