The Central Hotel Fire, Bundoran, was a fire at a popular family-owned hotel in the heart of the seaside resort of Bundoran, Co. Donegal, in the northwest of Ireland. On 8 August 1980, a fire broke out killing ten people, including both locals and holiday makers. The tragedy was covered as part of the RTÉ television series Disasters in summer 2007.
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