{"id":215464,"date":"2025-12-29T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215464\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:05:16","slug":"two-brothers-80s-who-died-in-co-sligo-house-fire-named-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215464\/","title":{"rendered":"Two brothers (80s) who died in Co Sligo house fire named \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two brothers in their 80s have died in a house fire at a property near Easkey 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>. The brothers, who died at their home in the small village of Rathlee, have been named as Pa and Seamus Cuffe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The bodies of the two men were transferred to Sligo University Hospital. Postmortem examinations will be conducted on site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The results will determine the course of the Garda investigation. However, foul play is not suspected to be a factor in the fire. <\/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 \">The scene is currently preserved for technical examination. Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two brothers in their 80s have died in a house fire at a property near Easkey in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43,14169],"class_list":["post-215464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sligo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215464","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=215464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215464\/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=215464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}