{"id":291995,"date":"2026-01-19T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/291995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:29:11","slug":"its-devastating-limerick-woman-who-died-in-house-fire-named-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/291995\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s devastating\u2019: Limerick woman who died in house fire named locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WOMAN who tragically died in a house fire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> city this weekend has been named locally as Marguerite (Marge) Neville, aged in her 60s.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were alerted to the fire at a residence in Chesterfield Downs, Singland at approximately 5.30pm on Saturday evening. Four appliances from Limerick Fire and Rescue rushed to the house but it&#8217;s understood the blaze was well established upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p>A female was pronounced deceased at the scene. She has been named locally as Ms Neville, mum-of-two adult children.<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00edomh Chomhairleoir of Limerick City and County Council, Cllr Catherine Slattery said she was very saddened to hear of the tragic death of Ms Neville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was well-known and well-liked. She worked in Dunnes Stores in the Parkway Shopping Centre. She has only just recently retired. It&#8217;s extremely sad to hear of this tragic news,\u201d said Cllr Slattery, who expressed her condolences to Ms Neville\u2019s family, friends, and neighbours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s just devastating for the community and so, so very sad. May she rest in peace,\u201d said Cllr Slattery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/local-news\/1992214\/almost-40-000-raised-for-heroic-limerick-grandparents-who-saved-baby-from-burning-house.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Almost \u20ac40,000 raised for heroic Limerick grandparents who saved baby from burning house<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of people, who knew Ms Neville, took to Facebook to pay tribute.<\/p>\n<p>She was described as \u201cthe nicest you could ever meet\u201d; \u201can absolute lady, may she rest in heavenly peace\u201d and \u201ca lovely person who will be missed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported. The scene has been preserved for a technical examination<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of a post-mortem examination will determine the course of the garda investigation.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that foul play is not suspected at this time.<\/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 who tragically died in a house fire in Limerick city this weekend has been named locally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,7587,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-291995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-limerick-city","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115920827988914875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}