A firefighter fought back tears as he told an inquest of his desperate attempts to rescue two colleagues trapped in an inferno at a disused ink factory.

A Bray fireman broke down a number of times in court while he described crawling through a fire to pull a deceased colleague out of a burning building.

A fire fighter for the Wicklow fire services has said fighting a fatal fire in Bray was like working on a time bomb and said it looked like a plane had crashed.