Killarney drafts in specialist gardaí to help establish cause of blaze

Fire investigators from the Garda Technical Bureau are walking Killarney National Park in an effort to establish if any kind of accelerant, accidental or deliberate, was involved

The three-day fire in  Killarney National Park last weekend saw up to 3,000 hectares of the 10,000-hectare park destroyed. Picture: Valerie O'Sullivan

Investigators from the specialist Garda Technical Bureau have been called in to help establish the pattern of the three-day fire in the Killarney National Park which saw up to 3,000 hectares of the 10,000 hectare park destroyed.

The burn pattern in the fire is proving difficult to establish, gardaí say.