'Everyone is very distressed' over shooting dead of Irish woman in New York

Denise Morgan. Picture: The Cottage Bar Restaurant/Facebook

A parish priest has spoken of the deep distress felt by a small community in Co Louth after a young woman who had emigrated from the area was shot dead in New York.

Denise Morgan, 39, from Tullyallen, Co Louth, was found dead in her home in Queens on Saturday in an apparent murder-suicide.