Father and son sustain serious burns at Clare home

A Co Clare family have been left devastated after a father and son sustained serous burns at their home Friday evening.

Fri, 15 Jun, 2018 - 23:35

Latest: A Co Clare family have been left devastated after a father and son sustained serous burns at their home Friday evening, writes David Raleigh.

The two men, named locally as Joe Quinn, aged 89, and his son Seamus Quinn, aged in his 40s, were airlifted in two helicopters to Cork University Hospital (CUH), from their home in Meelick, south east Clare.

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