Man was helpless to save family from blaze, inquest told

AN inquest has heard how a Co Clare man was helpless to rescue his father and brother from their burning home.

At a coroner’s inquest in Ennis, County Coroner Isobel O’Dea returned a verdict of accidental death into the deaths of Mossy Quinn, aged 67, and his son, James, 30, at the family home at Kiltacky More.

The pair died near Tubber in north Clare on January 22 last, described by Ms O’Dea as “one of the coldest weekends in memory”.