Firefighter tells of bid to rescue his colleagues

A firefighter fought back tears as he told an inquest of his desperate attempts to rescue two colleagues trapped in an inferno at a disused ink factory.

Eddie McCann told the inquest into the deaths of Bray firefighters Brian Murray, aged 46, and Mark O’Shaughnessy, aged 25, that the men who went into the building to rescue them were hit with a wall of “incredible heat”.

“It was like someone hitting you with a brick,” he said.