Town in shock after two die in apartment blaze

A parish priest has said that a town is in shock following the death in a fire of two people who had come to live in the community.

The victims of the fire which broke out in an apartment in the early hours of yesterday morning in Co Galway were last night named as Nuala Sweeney, 65, and Ben Whiteman, 38.

The victims, who were not related, were staying in an apartment at Station Rd, in Gort, in the south of the county.