Council to be tried over deaths of firemen

A COUNTY council was served with a book of evidence yesterday ahead of the trial into the deaths of two firemen in a blaze at a disused factory four years ago.

Wicklow County Council, as a corporate body, is the defendant facing four charges in connection with the deaths of Mark O’Shaughnessy, aged 25, and Brian Murray, aged 46, who were killed as they battled a fire at a building at Adelaide Villas, Bray, in September 2007.

At Bray District Court yesterday, Seamus Boyle for the Director of Public Prosecutions, said the book of evidence had been served on the council, adding that the DPP consented to the matter being sent forward for trial at Wicklow Circuit Court on December 6.