GARDAÍ ARE INVESTIGATING after an elderly woman died in a house fire in north county Dublin this evening.
A number of units of the Dublin Fire Brigade were called to the fire in a house in Walshestown, Lusk at about 6pm.
The fire was extinguished and the body of a woman in her 80s was removed from the building.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The woman’s body was taken James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Blanchardstown where a post-mortem will take place.
Gardaí said that the matter is currently under investigation.
Read: Man and woman arrested in Waterford on suspicion of involvement with international terrorism
have your say