All ten victims of a fire at a halting site in Carrickmines died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
An inquest into the deaths following a fire at Glenamuck Halting site heard that the garda investigation into the fire is ongoing.
The blaze claimed the lives of five adults and five children after it broke out in the early hours of October 10th 2015.
The victims were Thomas Connors, 27, his wife Sylvia, 30, and their children Jim, five, Christy, three, and six-month-old Mary; Willie Lynch, 25, his partner 27-year-old Tara Gilbert, who was pregnant, and their daughters Jodie, aged nine, and Kelsey, four; and 39-year-old Jimmy Lynch, a brother of Willy. The victims were residents of Glenamuck Halting site, Carrickmines, Dublin 24.
Garda Charlie Dempsey took the stand at Dublin Coroner's Court to confirm the details of the identification process for each individual victim.
The five adults and four of the children were identified using DNA evidence
The additional services of forensic dentist Dr Mary Clarke were used in the identification of some of the younger related siblings.
Six month old baby Mary Connors was formally identified by her relative, Dan Connors at the children's accident and emergency department at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin 24.
The ten post-mortem examinations were carried out by State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy and Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster.
The cause of death returned for all ten victims of the blaze was acute carbon monoxide poisoning due to smoke inhalation due to a fire.
Four relatives of the victims were present in court as Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane outlined the scope of the inquest. She told family members that the inquiry into all ten deaths will be treated as one inquest as the circumstances of all ten deaths are the same.
"We will not hold a number of inquests in this case because the circumstances are tragically the same. Today we are opening what is called a joinder inquest in relation to all of the people who died in this fire," Dr Cullinane said.
Gardai at Dun Laoghaire garda station applied for a six month adjournment of the inquest to allow for ongoing investigations.
Dr Cullinane adjourned the inquest until September 21 for further mention.
The coroner extended her sympathies to all those bereaved by the tragedy.
"Clearly the evidence in court testifies to the scale of the loss of life suffered by the families and the community. It must be very difficult to bear," the coroner said.
