Mother, father and son died of carbon poisoning in fire

THREE members of a family died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to smoke inhalation, following a fire in their two-storey farmhouse at Annagh, Castlemaine, Co Kerry, assistant state pathologist Dr Margot Bolster told an inquest in Tralee, yesterday.

The bodies of John Daly, aged 66, and his wife, Mary, aged 57, were found upstairs and that of their son, Shane, aged 24, in the kitchen downstairs, at 9.15am, on September 22, 2002, the morning of the Kerry/Armagh All-Ireland football final.

Dr Bolster, who carried out the post mortems, said the bodies were very extensively charred and dental records were used for identification. Shane Daly was found to have a concentration of 216mgs of ethanol in his blood.