{"id":250562,"date":"2026-01-18T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:46:07","slug":"update-woman-dies-in-house-fire-in-limerick-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250562\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Woman dies in house fire in Limerick city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A WOMAN in her 60s has died following a house <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/131\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fire<\/a> in Limerick city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emergency services were alerted to the fire at a residence in Chesterfield Downs, Singland at approximately 5:30pm this Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGarda\u00ed are investigating a fatal house fire that occurred on Saturday evening, 17th\u00a0January 2026 in Singland, Limerick city,&#8221; gardai confirmed in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/community\/1988296\/historic-library-in-limerick-town-set-to-begin-new-chapter-after-more-than-100-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Historic library in Limerick town set to begin new chapter after more than 100 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A female, aged in her 60s, has been pronounced deceased at the scene,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman&#8217;s body remains at the scene, which is currently preserved for a technical examination<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The outcome of a post-mortem examination will determine the course of the garda investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to sources, foul play is not suspected at this time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\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 WOMAN in her 60s has died following a house fire in Limerick city. Emergency services were alerted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,1396,44,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-250562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-limerick","tag-limerick-city","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250562","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=250562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}