Irish Examiner view: Taking care of the invisible people in modern society

People have been urged to 'look out for their neighbours' after the recent deaths in Cloneen.

The house in Cloneen near the Tipperary-Kilkenny border where the bodies of the elderly couple were found. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Few details have emerged about the circumstances of the deaths of an elderly couple, said to be in their 70s or 80s and from Britain, in a house outside Cloneen, near Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

They have been described as living like “ghosts”, who kept to themselves and rarely ventured from their home. They may have been dead for up to a year. Found in separate rooms, a bedroom and a living room, foul play is not suspected in their deaths by gardaí.