Post-mortem due on Bailieborough house fire victim

A post mortem is to be carried out later today on the body of an elderly woman who died following a house fire outside Bailieborough late yesterday evening, Thursday, April 10.

Emergency fire services were called to the scene at Greaghettiagh, Tunnyduff in Bailieborough shortly after 7pm.

Gardai are now investigating the circumstances surrounding the cause of the fire which claimed the life of a 92-year-old woman living at the house.

The woman's body was taken to the morgue at Cavan General Hospital and the area around the house preserved while gardaí carry out a technical examination of the scene.