Seven years for killer of child and father in Kerry branded 'a joke'

Outside court, the victims' family member, Kelly O'Brien, said: 'I'm in shock, disgusted. It's not as if my child passed in her sleep.'

Anthony O'Brien (right) and his daughter Nadine O'Brien who died in the fire in Tralee.

A mother whose husband and little girl were killed in a house fire cried "this is a joke" in court on Thursday after the double killer was jailed for six-and-a-half years.

Mr Justice Paul McDermott at the Central Criminal Court told the family of Anthony O'Brien and five-year-old Nadine O'Brien at the start of his sentencing remarks that nothing he does will remedy their grief and that the law is a "blunt instrument" that does not remove the suffering they continue to endure.