Teenager quizzed over Kilkenny blaze deaths

A teenager is among two people being questioned by detectives today over the deaths of a mother and her two young children in a Christmas Day house fire.

Sharon Whelan, 30, and her daughters Zsara, seven, and Nadia, two-and-a-half, died in the blaze at their rented home on a country lane close to the small village of Windgap, Co Kilkenny.