Tragic village family taken for post mortem

Post mortem examinations are due to be carried out today on the bodies of the elderly couple and their son found dead in their home in a rural Irish village.

The parents, John Joe Slater, aged in his 80s and Mary, in her late 70s, were found lying on the kitchen floor of the large house near the quiet village of Grangecon, in south-west Co Wicklow.