Father to be released for son’s funeral

THE father of a two-year-old boy killed in a house fire in Cork over the weekend is expected to be given temporary release from prison to attend his son’s funeral.

Stacey Ellard, 26, and her two children Calvin, 4, and Cian, 2, were found by firefighters, lying in bed in Ms Ellard’s room, in the upstairs of the smoke-filled house in Wilton in the early hours of Sunday morning.

While Stacey and Calvin were saved by the swift actions of the emergency services, Cian died in Cork University Hospital a short time later.