Family to be rehoused after devastating fire

A woman whose family lost everything in a devastating fire at her council flat accepted a second offer of a house last night.

Tracy Woods, whose home at the Bellview Crescent flats complex off Cork’s Old Youghal Road was gutted in a blaze on Wednesday, said she didn’t accept the council’s initial offer of a house because she didn’t want to live in that particular area of the city.

“It’s an area I don’t want to live in and my children said they wouldn’t feel safe there,” she said.