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.

Wicklow Co Council has been fined €355,000 for criminal health and safety breaches relating to the deaths of two fire fighters.

Wicklow County Council is due to be sentenced today for criminal health and safety violations relating to the death of two fire fighters.

Wicklow County Council will be sentenced in October for health and safety violations relating to the death of two fire fighters.

Wicklow County Council has expressed sincere regret for breaching safety legislation following a trial arising from the deaths of two fire fighters.

A Bray fireman who pulled the second of two deceased colleagues out of a burning building said he still thinks about him opening his eyes.

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.

Two alert calls to Greystones Fire Station by Bray Fire Station requesting assistance to deal with a fatal fire were not received, a trial has hea

Wicklow County Council has gone on trial in connection with the deaths of two fire-fighters in a disused warehouse in Bray nearly six years ago.

Wicklow County Council is to be tried next year on charges relating to the death of two firefighters in Bray.

A COURT case against Wicklow County Council over the deaths of two firemen in Bray in 2007 is likely to be heard in December.