‘Ultimate price paid by brave firefighters’

Two firefighters who died fighting a blaze in Bray, Co Wicklow, in 2007 paid the "ultimate price for their courage and devotion to duty".

Dublin Coroner Brian O’Farrell paid tribute to Brian Murray, aged 46, and Mark O’Shaughnessy, aged 26, at the conclusion of one of the longest inquests in the history of the State.

The firefighters died fighting a blaze at a disused factory at Adelaide Villas in Bray on September 26, 2007. Family members said the positions of senior management at Wicklow Fire Service are “untenable” due to Wicklow County Council’s guilty plea in the Central Criminal Court to serious health and safety violations.