{"id":215210,"date":"2025-12-28T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215210\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:30:08","slug":"two-men-80s-die-in-co-sligo-house-fire-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215210\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men (80s) die in Co Sligo house fire \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men in their 80s have died in a house fire at a property near Easkey village in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sligo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sligo\/\">Sligo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Garda Press Office has confirmed that the fire broke out at a farm house in Easkey overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and the emergency services were alerted to the fire at 11am on Sunday and attended at the scene. The two pensioners were pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Postmortem examinations will take place in due course, the outcomes of which will determine the course of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene is currently preserved for technical examination. Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men in their 80s have died in a house fire at a property near Easkey village in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43,14169,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-215210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sligo","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215210","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=215210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}