Fatal fire may have been deliberate

GARDAÍ are investigating whether a house fire in which an elderly father-of-two was killed and his wife and son injured was started deliberately.

Michael Crowe, 81, died in hospital after his son, Tommy, made a courageous attempt to rescue his pensioner father from the burning semi-detached home in Newbridge, Co Kildare.

Only a few hours before the fatal blaze, gardaí had been called to the family home in Pairc Mhuire after a brick was thrown through the glass of the front door at 2.15am.