Man, 36, charged in woman’s murder

A man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found after her house was set alight.

Darren Murphy, aged 36, with an address at Dan Desmond Villas in Passage West, Co Cork, was brought before Cork District Court yesterday, where he was remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of Olivia Dunlea-O’Brien at her home in Pembroke Crescent, Passage West, on Sunday.

Ms Dunlea-O’Brien’s body was found in the badly burnt bedroom of her two-storey semi-detached home in the early hours of Sunday after emergency services responded to reports of a fire at the house.