Woman, 89, dies in fire hours after nephew’s visit

Gardaí are preparing a file for the coroner’s court following the death of an elderly woman in a house fire in Cork City just hours after she was visited by a relative.

Mary Moynihan, 89, was pronounced dead at the scene after the blaze at her detached bungalow on the Model Farm Rd on Monday night.

Ms Moynihan had been visited just hours earlier by a nephew who regularly called to her.