Firecrackers may have started hotel blaze

TEENAGERS setting off firecrackers to celebrate Leaving Cert results may have burned down a hotel in Rosslare, causing €4 million worth of damage.

Garda forensic experts searched through the remains of Tuskar House Hotel in Rosslare Harbour yesterday. Sergeant Michael Clarke said they were investigating the theory that a firecracker may have led to the blaze.

However, they have not ruled out the possibility of an electrical fault, which may have set the hotel ablaze around 11.30pm on Wednesday night.