Village in shock after baby girl dies in clothes’ horse fire

A LIMERICK couple has been plunged into grief after the death of their 19-month-old baby girl in a clothes’ horse fire.

The child was in the care of relatives when the freak accident happened on Saturday last as her parents were in Limerick city doing their Christmas shopping.

Sean and Margaret O'Sullivan from Woodfield Park, Newcastle West, who have one other child, went into Limerick City on Saturday morning to do their Christmas shopping but within a few hours they were frantically travelling to Crumlin Hospital, Dublin to be by baby Chloe's bedside.