Guests flee Valentine hotel blaze

GUESTS enjoying a romantic St Valentine’s stay at the luxury Adare Manor had to flee in the middle of the night after a fire alert.

A blaze in the kitchen of the five-star hotel set off alarms at around 1am yesterday. Nearly 70 guests had to leave the building as three units of the Co Limerick fire service brought the blaze under control. Only minor damage was caused.

In another fire alert, 14 operations were cancelled yesterday at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick when smoke got into an operating theatres.