Garda probe underway as father and daughter found dead in Finglas named locally

Gardaí including forensic investigators at the scene after the bodies of a young girl and her father were found in the Heathfield estate in Cappagh, Finglas. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Gardaí are treating the deaths of a little girl and her father in their Dublin home as a suspected murder-suicide.

Locals said that the child’s mother made the terrible discovery when she returned home on Saturday evening.