Gardai tonight said they were treating as suspicious the death of a woman in a house fire in Kilkenny.

The mother of a young family is the only person to have survived a tragic house fire in Co Louth this morning in which two young sisters died along with their father.

A man in his thirties and his two daughters, both of whom were under four years of age, died in a house fire in Dundalk last night.

Three people have died in a house fire in County Kerry.