A third person has been killed in a second fatal house fire in the Curragh in Co Kildare.

Post mortems are due to be carried out today on the bodies of two young people who lost their lives in a house fire in Co Kildare yesterday.

TRAGEDY struck in the early hours of the New Year when the parents of two young boys died in a house fire at the Curragh Army Camp in Co Kildare.

An investigation was launched today into the death of two people in a blaze at an Irish Army camp.

Two young people are dead following a house fire in Co Kildare today.