Overview
- The discovery, made Friday at a house in Carrick-on-Suir, left a woman in her 30s and her newborn pronounced dead at the scene.
- Gardaí say they are not treating the deaths as suspicious and are working on the theory of a medical emergency during an unsupervised home birth.
- The remains were taken to University Hospital Waterford, where a post-mortem on the mother has concluded with results withheld, and the infant’s examination is due early next week.
- The mother has been named locally as Polish national Monika Kubasiewicz, who had recently moved to the Blackthorn Close estate with her partner and two young children after time in emergency housing.
- Gardaí have set up an incident room and appointed a family liaison officer, while clergy and a local councillor urge people not to speculate as a file is prepared for the coroner.