Video: Coroner calls for ban chip pan sales following house fire

A coroner has called for a ban on the sale of old-style chip pans and urged people to dump them, after an inquest heard how two men died in a house fire caused by an unattended chip pan.

The coroner for South Cork, Frank O’Connell, was speaking after returning verdicts of accidental death in relation to the deaths of Noel O’Mahony, in his sixties, and Kenny Relihan, in his twenties, following a house fire at 47 St Colman’s Park, Macroom, Co Cork, in the early hours of May 2, 2016.

Mr O’Connell said he was satisfied beyond doubt the fire had started in the kitchen when the chip pan caught fire after Mr Relihan fell asleep after a night out.