Gardaí and emergency services attended the scene in Blackthorn Close in the Knocknaconnery area of Carrick-on-Suir after the alarm was raised by a man known to the woman at around 2pm.

The bodies of a 12-year-old boy and his 48-year-old father were found at two separate locations on Thursday.

Oisin O’Reilly, 12, and Wayne O’Reilly, 48, were found dead at separate homes in Clondalkin and Ballyfermot on Thursday

Two bodies have been found in the Grand Canal in Dublin

A fireman has told the Stardust inquest of finding the bodies of two young victims “fused together” with their "arms around each other"