Carrickmines blaze: ‘There is no way of healing the pain’

Neighbours of an extended Traveller family virtually wiped out in an horrific fire on Saturday morning came together last night in a show of support and sympathy.

The move by the community at Fassaroe estate in Bray, Co Wicklow, was part of a wider outpouring of grief and shock — led by President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny — at the appalling tragedy, which claimed the lives of five adults and five children.

Tara Gilbert and Willie Lynch