Elderly couple found dead in Tipperary home named locally

It's likely to be several weeks before it's established how an elderly couple died in south Tipperary.

Gardai now believe 81-year-old Nicholas Smith and his 79-year-old wife, Hilary, died in November or December 2020.

That's over 18 months before their bodies were found in their remote bungalow on Monday.

Their post-mortem exams were inconclusive yesterday - and gardai are now hoping toxicology reports will establish how they died.