Girl's mother 'arrived home to see house on fire'

The mother of a girl who died in a house fire last night reportedly discovered the blaze after returning from a night out.

An investigation is underway this afternoon after a 9 year-old girl and a woman in her 80's died in a house fire in county Wexford.

Emergency services were called to the scene at a house in the rural area of Clohass near Enniscorthy just after midnight.