Woman dies in Limerick house fire thought to be caused by cigarette

A woman has died in a house fire believed to have been started by a cigarette.

The body of Geraldine Keane, 47, was discovered in her bed in a house she shared with partner Patsy Downes at Daly’s Avenue, Janesboro, Limerick.

Firemen alerted to the blaze shortly after midnight yesterday, found the grandmother in an upstairs room.