Bodies of Carrickmines fire victims released to families

The long wait for the bodies of the Carrickmines fire victims to be released to their families ended yesterday afternoon after formal identification of their remains concluded.

Funeral arrangements can now be made for all 10 who died in the blaze at the halting site on Glenamuck Road in the early hours of Saturday morning.

They were Thomas, 27, and Sylvia Connors, 25, and their three children, Jim, 5; Christy, 2, and baby Mary, five months, who lived on the site, and Willie Lynch, 25; his pregnant partner, Tara Gilbert, 27; their children, Jodie, 9, and Kelsey, 4; and Willie’s brother, Jimmy Lynch, 39 who were from the Fassaroe estate in Bray.