Young parents perish in Irish Army base fire

TRAGEDY struck in the early hours of the New Year when the parents of two young boys died in a house fire at the Curragh Army Camp in Co Kildare.

The couple, 25-year-old Darren Hanley and his partner Amanda Murphy, 23, were parents of two young boys, three-year-old Tiernan and baby Ceadan, who is just seven weeks old.

The fire broke out at the semi-detached house at McMurrough Hill in the Curragh Army Camp in the early hours of yesterday morning.