HE’S been crowned amateur world elephant polo champion, he was Ireland’s first-ever competitor at the sumo world wrestling championships in Osaka, and he holds the world record for the three-legged marathon. But adrenalin junkie Colin Carroll is about to make his biggest-ever splash.

Detectives were tonight continuing to question a senior fire officer over his handling of a blaze which claimed the lives of two of his men.

An experienced firefighter killed on duty with his young colleague warned superiors weeks before they died of dangerous practices in the local fire service.

FELLOW firefighters of the two men who perished in the Bray factory fire yesterday praised the commitment the men had given to the service.