Fatal house fire investigated

GARDAÍ IN Co Wicklow are investigating a house fire in which a 60-year-old man died on Monday.

GARDAÍ IN Co Wicklow are investigating a house fire in which a 60-year-old man died on Monday.

The blaze happened at a property on Ballybeg Road in Rathnew. Emergency services were made aware of the fire at about 8pm.

The fire is not being treated as suspicious. The man’s remains were removed to Loughlinstown Hospital in Dublin.

Gardaí have also said that a fatal fire in Co Donegal on New Year’s Eve was not being treated as suspicious.

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The body of Elizabeth McLaughlin (Loftus) was discovered in the living room of her home at Clós Phádraig, Carndonagh, last Friday at about 11am.