A family home has been destroyed and a dog has been killed in a house fire in Athlone.
The blaze broke out in the property in Clonbrusk on Tuesday morning around 8 o'clock.
Tanya had been living there with her 19-year-old daughter, Lydia, for several years.
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Fire services and gardai rushed to the scene - but Tanya's friend, Mary Joyce, says they couldn't prevent major damage - as she told Eoghan Murphy.
