Tipperary couple may have been killed by carbon monoxide up to a year ago

A house in Cloneen near the Tipperary-Kilkenny border where the bodies of two people were found on Monday afternoon.

The elderly couple whose bodies may have lain undiscovered in their house for up to a year may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Named locally as Nicholas and Hilary Smith, they were last seen so long ago that residents living nearby thought they had moved out.