Eugene Mckee News Today

A former republican prisoner, once jailed for his role in an IRA bombing campaign, has died in a house fire in west Belfast.

A former republican prisoner, once jailed for his role in an IRA bombing campaign, has died in a house fire in west Belfast.

THE family of a Twinbrook man who died after a fire at his Twinbrook flat on Monday night, fought bravely to try and rescue him.

The man, who has been named locally as Eugene McKee, was rescued and treated at the scene of the fire, but later died.