Nurse dies after clothes and hair go on fire

A 25-YEAR-OLD nurse has died in the hospital where she worked after her hair and clothes caught fire as she was trying to light a cigarette from a gas stove.

Maeve O'Shea died in Cork University Hospital after she sustained severe burns while trying to light the cigarette on a kitchen stove at 3.30am yesterday while she was staying in a house with relatives in Newmarket, Co Cork.

Ms O'Shea was examined at the scene by two local doctors and rushed to Cork University Hospital, where she died less than three hours later. She had worked in the hospital's intensive therapy unit since last September, having returned from England after a number of years nursing there.