Welder: No fire in factory when I finished job

A welder who carried out works at a disused factory in Bray shortly before it caught fire told an inquest there was “absolutely” no fire when he finished the job and he would go to his grave saying that.

Aidan O’Neill was giving evidence at Dublin Coroner’s Court at the combined inquest into the deaths of Bray firefighters Mark O’Shaughnessy, aged 25, and Brian Murray, aged 46, a father of 15.

They died while fighting a blaze at a disused ink factory at Adelaide Villas off the Dargle Rd in Bray on Sept 26, 2007.