Elderly man dies in house fire in Oughterard

Galway Bay fm newsroom – An elderly man has died in a house fire in Oughterard It's understood the fire broke out late last night out at the bungalow in Rusheeny outside the village on the old Seanapheasteen road However the fire remained contained within the house and therefore went un-noticed The man who was in his eighties, was single and lived alone and his body was not discovered until this morning His body has been removed to University Hospital Galway and Gardai are not treating the death as suspicious