Cork family who lost their home in a fire celebrate return to refurbished household

A mother of five who lost her husband after a year long battle with cancer only to see her home badly damaged in a fire two weeks before Christmas was celebrating yesterday as the family moved back in to their newly refurbished family home following a fundraising drive.

On December 12, 2017 Mary Gore from Mallow, Co Cork, was left without any of her possessions after a fire at her home in College Wood. Her husband Chris had passed away of cancer at Marymount Hospice in Cork just weeks earlier.

Mary told The Neil Prendeville Show, on Cork’s Red FM, that she was shocked when she received a phone call that her house was on fire, whilst at the local school for a Christmas performance involving her children.