Gardaí investigate cause of shoe shop blaze

GARDAÍ are keeping an open mind on the cause of a fire which gutted a shop early on Tuesday morning in north Cork and destroyed a BMW parked nearby.

However, Gardaí in Kanturk say that another car was deliberately burnt-out in the town hours earlier, which they are treating as arson.

Inspector Declan O’Sullivan said the shoe shop, Shoebiz, had only recently opened and the building and its contents had been “extensively damaged”.