Fundraising gig planned for firebombed family

PLANS are under way to hold a fundraising concert for the family that lost a daughter, a grandson and were left homeless when their house was firebombed on Easter Sunday.

Helena O’Dwyer, 25, and her five-year-old nephew, Ryan, died from smoke inhalation after a petrol bomb was thrown in the living room window at Nutley Avenue in Mahon.

The house belongs to Helena’s parents, Joe and Helena Snr. Their other daughter, Dawn, and her two children, also lived with them. The family didn’t even have clothes to wear after fleeing their burning house in their nightwear.