Fire officers had been warned of bleeper system failings

Radio controllers warned senior officers that Bray Fire Station’s bleeper system was failing and the problem could prove to be major, an inquest into the death of two firefighters heard.

The failures were detailed in an email sent eight months before an incident which claimed the lives of Mark O’Shaughnessy, 25, and Brian Murray, 46.

Concerns around the effectiveness of the emergency bleeper system in use by Wicklow fire services are among the issues being raised by the families of the two men at a combined inquest into their deaths, in its third day at Dublin Coroner’s Court.