Fundraiser raises more than €10k for Cork family left devastated after house fire

The family's son lost all of his education materials and the daughter was just three weeks away from her wedding day. 

The O'Donoghue home in Douglas was left badly damaged after the terrible house fire. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A fundraiser set up for a Cork family left devastated after a fire ripped through their Douglas home has reached €10,000 - more than double the appeal's first target. 

Last Friday, Emergency services extinguished a fire that broke out at the O'Donoghue family home in Broadale, Maryborough Hill, Douglas, Co. Cork, after several hours.