Heavy rain floods parts of Cork amid Met Éireann orange weather warning
Local units of fire service assisted business owners
Fire service
Warning issued on hazards of illegal fireworks in advance of Halloween
Minister urges people to think hard before using and misusing fireworks as ‘we hear far too often of casualties’
Firefighters, prison officers and military personnel can work for longer under new legislation
New legislation on retirement age for uniformed State employees to be commenced on Monday by Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe
Fire guts apartment building in Longford town
Blaze broke out at about 1.30am near centre of Longford town
Taoiseach condemns ‘idiotic’ attack on Tallaght building earmarked for asylum seekers
Harris describes attack as ‘idiotic and disgusting act of criminality’
Man (80s) and woman (70s) die in Cork city house fire
Victims of fire on Lower Glanmire Road became first time grandparents just hours before they died
Leixlip fire: Vacant building in Co Kildare damaged in latest suspected anti-immigration arson attack
False rumours were circulating online that property in Leixlip was earmarked to house asylum seekers
Taoiseach ‘very concerned’ as gardaí investigate possible arson attack in Brittas
Seven units of Dublin Fire Brigade tackling blaze at vacant building being ‘considered’ for refugee accommodation
Five units of Dublin Fire Brigade attending blaze in Airways Industrial estate in Santry
Locals advised to close windows as smoke drifts across M50 and M1
Fire experts to examine if electrical fault caused blaze in Stardust
Forensic scientist says several emergency exits were ‘not open’ during early stages of fire, in which 48 young people were killed
Rathgar fire: Garage employee injured in blaze was attended to by trainee nurse working in nearby pharmacy
Blaze at Moto Pitstop on Orwell Road began just after 10am
Challenge brought over fire brigade’s blanket ban on applicants with diabetes
Garda who wants career change claims Dublin City Council’s ‘blanket ban’ imposed without reason
Fumes and ‘rapidly lethal’ heat significant causes of Stardust deaths, inquests hear
Jury begins hearing postmortem findings from 1981 along with findings from forensic pathologists
Fire safety defects: Funding for interim measures to help Celtic Tiger-era apartment owners is announced
The owners of up to 100,000 affected buildings stand to benefit from the measures, rolled out in advance of more comprehensive State support scheme being finalised
Stardust fireman ‘often wonders what type of person’ he would have been had he not attended at blaze
Noel Keegan, who was 30 on night of blaze, found bodies ‘burnt to a cinder’
Shortage of firefighters and lack of training an ongoing safety threat, conference told
Staffing levels for fire service in Cork not increased since 1970 despite substantial increases in city’s population, union representative says
Fire brigade response times worsen with just over half of incidents attended within 10 minutes
National Oversight and Audit Commission figures show lowest rate of speedy arrivals at blazes since official statistics first compiled in 2014
Storm Agnes clean-up: Met Éireann warns of poor conditions as fallen trees cleared
Latest weather news: South and west coasts hit by storm, with floods and power cuts around country
Dublin fireman whose death in 1938 ‘slipped through history’ is remembered with plaque
John Darmon, who died while working on a Dublin Fire Brigade ambulance, previously played roles in the War of Independence and Civil War
Firefighter acquitted of drugs offences secures injunction preventing disciplinary hearing against him
Last February Michael Morgan was acquitted of charges arising from discovery of €78,000 of cocaine in a locker at Nenagh fire station
Two gardaí hospitalised for smoke inhalation after attending suspected arson attack in Dublin
Two officers, arriving to scene of house fire, entered upstairs window using a ladder to save a woman (50s) trapped inside
Retained firefighters vote to end strike action and accept deal
Deal brokered at WRC accepted by 63% of Siptu members in ballot but work still to be done, union says
Retained firefighters call off strike after deal on ‘guaranteed’ pay
Proposed agreement will see new entrants earn about €18,500 in their first year
Government attempting to break retained firefighters’ strike, says union
Siptu warns of an increase in the number of stations impacted by the strike action if matters remain unresolved after a week
Firefighters warn Taoiseach strike will escalate and lives could be put at risk if dispute not resolved
Station officer asks to not be put ‘in a position where it’s too late’
Both sides in retained firefighters dispute accuse the other of compromising safety
Management and union at odds over basis on which emergency cover is being provided during strike which involved about 2,000 firefighters
Strike action by retained firefighters to resume next week
Siptu members reject Labour Court proposals by margin of more than four to one
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