Firefighters: Reform calls ignored

FIREFIGHTERS have attacked the Department of the Environment and said if Wednesday’s blaze started in Dublin rather than Wicklow their two colleagues would still be alive.

The firefighters were reacting to the deaths of Brian Murray, 46, and 26-year-old Mark O’Shaugnessy in a factory fire in Bray.

Chairman of SIPTU’s national firefighters’ committee Brian Murray, who is not related to either victim, said the service was based on 60-year-old structures rather than on modern risks.