Circumstances conspired to see tragic Cloneen couple disappear in plain sight

"I keep going over in my head what I could have done, or what I should have done," says neighbour Seanie Morrissey.

The house in Cloneen, Co Tipperary where English couple Nick and Hilary Smith were found dead. Picture: Neil Mchael

When a man from Cloneen died suddenly, the tragedy rocked the wider Co Tipperary community.

Hundreds of people attended his wake and hundreds more filed quietly into the Church of the Nativity for his funeral Mass.