Woman killed in Togher house fire named locally

A woman who died in a house fire in a southside suburb of Cork city early on Thursday morning has been named locally as Eileen O’Leary (67) of Palmbury Orchard, Togher.

The alarm was raised just after 6am, and members of Cork City Fire Brigade fought the blaze at Ms O’Leary’s home and the two adjoining houses for more than four hours, before discovering her body in an upstairs bedroom.

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