Labour eyes independent probe into Bray fire

AN INDEPENDENT investigation into the recent death of two part-time firefighters will be called for by the Labour Party today in a Dáil debate on the state of the country’s fire services.

The private members’ motion urging the government to establish a national fire authority and introduce full-time fire services in areas of high population follows the death of Mark O’Shaughnessy and Brian Murray in Bray, Co Wicklow.

Labour spokesman on local government Ciarán Lynch is expected to strongly criticise the Government’s failure to implement recommendations made in a key 2002 report on the fire service.