Singer devastated over mother’s death

HEARTBROKEN actress and jazz singer Honor Heffernan yesterday spoke of her family’s devastation following the tragic death of her mother and sister.

An inquest heard Bridget Heffernan, aged 76, and Fiona Heffernan, aged 39, died from acute carbon monoxide poisoning from prolonged use of a water heater in a poorly ventilated kitchen in their Dublin home last year.

Ms Heffernan said, after the inquest, her mother and sister Fiona were the centre of her and her family’s world.