Postmortems are due to take place today on the bodies of an elderly couple who died in County Mayo.

The remains of Tom Fitzgerald, who was in his 70s and his wife Kitty, who was aged in her 60s, were discovered at their home in Irishtown yesterday.

Emergency services attended the scene - where the couple were pronounced dead.

A man in his 30s who was also found injured was taken to University Hospital Galway for treatment.

Michael Commins is a reporter with the Mayo News - he says the community is in shock: