Body found in burning home

GARDAÍ in Kilkenny are today expected to launch a murder inquiry following the discovery of a woman's blood-stained body in her burning home yesterday evening.

Christina Quinn, aged 36, of 2 Greenfields Road, Kilkenny, died at the scene.

Fire and ambulance services, alerted by one of her two sons, arrived to her semi-detached home on a quiet cul de sac close to St Luke's Hospital just after 5pm.