{"id":196421,"date":"2025-12-17T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196421\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:51:07","slug":"breaking-man-60s-dies-in-tragic-house-fire-in-county-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196421\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Man, 60s, dies in tragic house fire in County Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN has tragically died just days before Christmas in a house fire in County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred in a two-storey farmhouse on the edge of Mountcollins village on Tuesday. Firefighters from Abbeyfeale, Newcastle West and Castleisland all responded to the blaze at 11.32pm.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1968958\/gardai-appeal-for-information-following-multiple-vehicle-thefts-in-county-limerick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Garda\u00ed appeal for information following multiple vehicle thefts in County Limerick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As they fought the fire, they made the sad discovery.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said garda\u00ed were alerted to an incident of a house fire at a residential property in Mountcollins on Tuesday, December 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe body of a man, aged in 60s, has been removed from the scene to University Hospital Limerick where a post mortem will take place which will determine the course of the garda investigation. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>No foul play is suspected. It is not known how the fire started.<\/p>\n<p>One local told Limerick Live: \u201cIt\u2019s awful news coming up to Christmas. He was a very quiet, very nice man and well-got. He lived on his own. He was a retired farmer who worked hard all his life. May he rest in peace.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN has tragically died just days before Christmas in a house fire in County Limerick. It occurred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2177,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-196421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-county-limerick","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}