‘People are stunned and shocked’

SHOCKED neighbours and friends came throughout the day to lay flowers or chat quietly outside the fire-scorched remains of the house where a young woman and her nephew lost their lives.

Helena O’Dwyer, 25, and her five-year-old nephew Ryan were sleeping in an upstairs room of the house in Nutley Avenue, Mahon, when, in the early hours of Easter Sunday, a firebomb was hurled through the front window.

Three generations of the O’Dwyer family were present in the house at the time when the fire swept through the house and shattered what should have been a happy occasion for all the family.