Man dies in Dundalk house fire
A man has died following a fire at a house in Dundalk, Co Louth, in the early hours of this morning.
The blaze broke out at around 4.30am in a house converted into flats on St Mary’s Road.
Firefighters rescued the man from the bathroom of a ground-floor flat and performed CPR until the ambulance service arrived, but he died later from his injuries.
Three people, a man and two women, were also rescued from an upstairs flat.
Gardaí are preserving the scene of the blaze for technical examination later today.
