Council to meet union over firemen’s deaths

TRADE union officials will meet Wicklow County Council today for the first time since it emerged the local authority is likely to be prosecuted over the deaths of two firemen in Bray in September 2007.

Council to meet union over firemen’s deaths

The meeting, between SIPTU officials and the council, also comes a week after the trade union’s vice-president, Patricia King, wrote to Environment Minister Phil Hogan seeking to determine whether there was now a need for a full public inquiry into the tragic deaths of Brian Murray and Mark O’Shaughnessy.

The two men worked at Bray fire station and were among those tending to a raging fire at a disused factory in the town on September 26, 2007, when a roof collapsed, killing them.

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