House Fire
# house-fire - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
House fire: Couple found guilty of manslaughter of 6 children
Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead have been found guilty
# house-fire - Monday 11 March, 2013
Man dies in house fire on Clare Island
The 62-year-old man was pronounced dead on the scene after the alarm was raised last night. The incident is not being treated as suspicious.
# house-fire - Monday 18 February, 2013
Man arrested over woman’s death in Cork house fire
The woman’s body was discovered after a fire at a house in Passage West was put out in the early hours of yesterday morning.
# house-fire - Sunday 17 February, 2013
Investigation after woman dies in Cork house fire
The blaze broke out at around 1.30am this morning in the Passage West area of Cork.
# house-fire - Sunday 6 January, 2013
88-year-old man killed in Waterford fire
No one else was in the house at the time and gardaà are not treating the incident as suspicious.
# house-fire - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
Four DFB units deal with serious house fire in Sandycove
The fire broke out in the early hours of this morning but no one was injured in the incident in south Dublin.
# house-fire - Monday 24 December, 2012
Funeral for Carlow house fire victim to be held Christmas Day
The 50-year-old victim was yesterday pulled from a blaze at her home by her son but did not survive.
# house-fire - Sunday 23 December, 2012
Woman (50) dies after being rescued by son from blaze
The woman was pulled from the house after her son returned home to find it on fire at around 4.30am.
# house-fire - Thursday 20 December, 2012
Man, 69, dies in Letterkenny house fire
The fire broke out at about 9.30pm last night at a cottage in Glenkeogh.
# house-fire - Monday 10 December, 2012
Elderly man dies in Cork house fire
The fire occurred on the Main Street in Rathcormac early last night.
# house-fire - Saturday 8 December, 2012
Two women and man die in Leitrim house fire
The fire broke out in the early hours of this morning at house near Manorhamilton.
# house-fire - Friday 16 November, 2012
Two firemen attacked while fighting Limerick house fires
Limerick City Council’s Chief Fire Officer has condemned the violence as “shocking and disgraceful”.
# house-fire - Monday 12 November, 2012
North Circular Road closed in both directions due to house fire
The fire was discovered at around 9am and there are no reports of any injuries at this stage.
# house-fire - Tuesday 6 November, 2012
Third man charged over the deaths of six children
The man stands accused alongside Michael and Mairead Philpott the parents of the six siblings who died in the house fire.
# house-fire - Sunday 21 October, 2012
Man dies in Fermanagh house fire
The fire broke out at a house in the Clones Road area of Newtownbutler.
# house-fire - Monday 15 October, 2012
Four children and their mother die in Essex house fire
Police are investigating a suspicious house fire in Essex that left four children and their mother dead.
# house-fire - Friday 14 September, 2012
Post mortems carried out on men who died in Roscommon fire
Three men’s bodies were found in a house in Roscommon town this morning.
# house-fire - Saturday 4 August, 2012
Elderly man dies in Dublin house fire
The fire broke out in Artane on the northside of Dublin at around 9 o’clock this morning.
# house-fire - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
Mirror + direct sunlight = house fires, warns fire service
Dorset firefighters say they tackled a bedroom fire on Monday believed to have been sparked by mirror-reflected sunlight.
# house-fire - Sunday 1 July, 2012
Woman found dead after Co Donegal house fire
The body of a woman, 40, who lived alone at the house was discovered last night.
# house-fire - Friday 22 June, 2012
Funeral held for six children killed in house fire
The children’s parents, who have been charged with their murder, did not attend the service.
# house-fire - Tuesday 29 May, 2012
Parents of six children who died in house fire arrested
Mick and Mairead Philpott have been arrested on suspicion of murder by police in the the English city of Derby.
# house-fire - Monday 14 May, 2012
Sixth child dies after UK house fire tragedy
Duwayne Philpott, whose five siblings died on Friday, lost his fight for life at Birmingham Children’s Hospital overnight.
# house-fire - Saturday 12 May, 2012
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Tributes paid as five children who died in UK house fire are named
Two people are being questioned after a house fire in the English east midlands killed five children, aged between five and 10, on Friday morning.
Man and daughter, 5, die in Tralee house fire
The fire broke out in the early hours of this morning. A woman was injured in the incident and is being treated at Kerry General Hospital.
# house-fire - Friday 20 April, 2012
Gardaà treating death of man in Kerry house fire as suspicious
Investigations are upgraded after a post-mortem carried out on the body of a 58-year-old man who died yesterday.
# house-fire - Thursday 19 April, 2012
Man dies in Kerry house fire
The man was found at the house near Killorglin in the early hours of this morning.
# house-fire - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
Man in 50s dies in overnight fire in Lucan
The man was the only occupant in the house in the Esker Park area, where the fire broke out in the kitchen overnight.
# house-fire - Sunday 12 February, 2012
Post-mortems due on Navan mother and son
The 28-year-old woman and her young son are thought to have died during a housefire in Navan, Co Meath yesterday.
# house-fire - Saturday 11 February, 2012
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# house-fire - Friday 23 December, 2011
Man in his 80s killed in farmhouse fire
The body of a pensioner was discovered at the isolated dwelling in Wexford earlier today, gardaà have confirmed.
# house-fire - Sunday 6 November, 2011
Man dies in Drumcondra house fire
It’s believed the man was sleeping upstairs in the house when the blaze broke out.
# house-fire - Wednesday 2 November, 2011
Cork house fire claims life of second child
A four-year-old boy has died this afternoon following a house fire which also claimed the life of his little brother Cian on Sunday.
# house-fire - Sunday 30 October, 2011
Two-year-old dies following Cork house fire
The child, along with his mother and brother, had been taken to hospital following the blaze in Wilton.
# house-fire - Saturday 22 October, 2011
Man dies in Galway house fire
A 45-year-old has died following a house fire in Barna, Co. Galway last night.
# house-fire - Thursday 6 October, 2011
Second arrest over fire that killed five-year-old girl
A woman in her 30s has been arrested in Boyle, Co Roscommon this evening.
# house-fire - Wednesday 5 October, 2011
Man arrested over fire that killed five-year-old girl
A man in his 30s has been arrested in Sligo in connection with the house fire in Boyle, Co Roscommon on Monday.
# house-fire - Monday 3 October, 2011
Fatal Roscommon house fire being treated as suspicious
Investigators are treating as suspicious a house fire which took place the early hours of this morning, which led to the death of a five-year-old girl.
Five-year-old girl dies in Roscommon house fire
Two other young children escaped from the house after a fire was discovered early this morning.





















































