Mother and daughter, 8, die in blaze at family home

A MOTHER who would have celebrated her 44th birthday this weekend, perished in a horrific house fire along with her eight-year-old daughter in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Her family spoke of it as a ‘double tragedy’ for while they should have been celebrating a birthday, they also lost their only daughter, who was due to make her First Holy Communion this May in the local church.

Alice Connors, 44, from Woodview Drive, Adamstown, in South Wexford, and her eight-year-old daughter, Mary, perished in the bedroom as fire engulfed their home at around 2am.