A mother of five who lost her husband after a year long battle with cancer only to see her home badly damaged in a fire two weeks before Christmas was celebrating yesterday as the family moved back in to their newly refurbished family home following a fundraising drive.

Latest: Almost €40,000 has been raised online since 9am this morning for a Cork mother of five who lost all of her belongings in a house fire which occured just one month after her husband passed away from cancer.