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Carrickmines Halting Site Fire Jury Returns Death By Misadventure Finding

Brendan O'Loughlin
Brendan O'Loughlin

04:43 22 Jan 2019


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The jury in the Carrickmines halting site fire inquest has returned verdicts of deaths by misadventure.

Five adults and five children from two traveller families died in the blaze in 2015.

Before retiring, the jury were told they had no role to play in establishing who, if anyone, was to blame.

Their job was to consider who died, where they died and how they died.

Thomas Connors, his wife Sylvia and three children died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

So did five members of the Lynch family who were visiting.

A chip pan left on a cooker was the cause of the fire.

The only person found to have eaten chips that night was Mr. Connors.

His baby daughter Mary, who was taken from the burning caravan, had to be rescued for a second time when the fire spread.

She didn’t survive.

The jury returned verdicts of death by misadventure for all ten victims, and made a number of recommendations.

New fire safety guidelines for traveller accommodation were among them.

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