A tightknit community is in shock - as gardai probe if the discovery of a body in a rural home is linked to a fatal road accident that happened a short time later.
The alarm was raised at 6.20am on Thursday when a man's body was found by a relative in his home in rural Co Monaghan.
The grim discovery was made at Broomfield near Castleblayney. Sources said there were indications that the property had been ransacked.