A mother’s nightmare

TERESA KEANE, the mother of five-year-old Marie Keane-Connolly, was unable to hold back the tears when she knelt and placed flowers at the scene where her daughter had died in a fire just hours before.

Ms Keane is understood to have given birth to twin girls in Sligo General Hospital days before the incident. It is believed she enjoyed a visit from Marie and her two sisters hours before the blaze at their home in Boyle, Co Roscommon, yesterday.

Gardaí said they were treating the house fire as suspicious. The house at Termon Road was sealed off as crime scene examiners carried out forensic checks after the fire, which broke out between 2.30am and 3am.