A POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION IS BEING CARRIED OUT ON THE BODY OF A 33-YEAR OLD MAN, WHO DIED IN A FIRE IN CASTLEBAR YESTERDAY EVENING.

THE DECEASED HAS BEEN NAMED LOCALLY AS COLIN GILLESPIE FROM RUSH STREET, CASTLEBAR – SON OF TOM GILLESPIE, EDITOR OF THE CONNAUGHT TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER, AND HIS WIFE MAVOURNEEN.

THE BLAZE BROKE OUT AT AN UPSTAIRS FLAT OVER A LICENSED PREMISES ON RUSH STREET AT ABOUT 20 TO 5 LAST EVENING.

FIREFIGHTERS WHO BROKE INTO THE FLAT FOUND MR GILLESPIE’S BODY IN THE BEDROOM.

THERE WAS EXTENSIVE FIRE AND SMOKE DAMAGE TO THE SITTINGROOM AREA OF THE FLAT.

IT’S UNDERSTOOD THE ALARM WAS RAISED BY THE OWNER AFTER A FIRE ALARM WAS HEARD IN THE UPSTAIRS AREA OF THE BUILDING.

A FORENSIC EXAMINATION OF THE SCENE TOOK PLACE, AND MR GILLESPIE’S BODY WAS REMOVED TO THE MAYO GENERAL HOSPITAL.

HE’S SURVIVED BY HIS PARENTS, FOUR SISTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND WAS PRE-DECEASED BY HIS ONLY BROTHER DARRAGH.

COLIN GILLESPIE’S REMAINS WILL REPOSE AT COADY’S FUNERAL HOME IN CASTLEBAR FROM 5 PM TOMORROW EVENING, WITH REMOVAL AT 6.30 TO THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROSARY, CASTLEBAR.

BURIAL WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE NEW CEMETERY FOLLOWING 12 O’CLOCK MASS ON SATURDAY.