'Hero' rescuer hailed as Carrickmines blaze victims laid to rest

The deaths of ten people including several children in a blaze has unleashed a devastating earthquake of grief, the funeral of five of the victims has heard.

Parents Thomas, 27, and Sylvia Connors, 25, and their three children, Jim, five, Christy, two, and five-month-old baby Mary, died in the tragedy at Carrickmines, in south Dublin, more than a week ago.