A teenage boy drowned after he went into a river on a horse only for the animal to be plunged underwater because of a sudden drop caused by erosion, Cork Coroner’s Court has heard.

A court has fined Wicklow County Council €355,000 plus legal costs of nearly €96,000 for criminal health and safety violations relating to a warehouse blaze in which two firefighters died.

A LIMERICK City Council employee who claims he was refused permission to charge his electric bike at the city’s main fire station has co-sponsored the first free electric vehicle charging bay in Ireland.

The number of road traffic accidents attended by the Fire Service in Co Clare tripled in the last five years, it emerged today.