While working in Rathfarnham and Ballybrack recently, I can across instances where someone had used yellow and green wire as a live wire. This is extremely dangerous as most people will assume the yellow and green wire is earth (which it should be). This is a potential trap that could kill or hurt someone. If […]

I got two jobs today which could have resulted in fire if the customer had not switched off and contacted me. The first was an immersion switch in an apartment in Goatstown. The customer felt the switch was hot and turned off the immersion. On investigation I discovered a loose neutral connection which could have […]

A fire which ripped through Kilmaganny Post Office on Friday evening gutted the building and has left the local community without vital services. The blaze broke out shortly after 7.30pm on Friday night and it took several hours for units of the fire brigade to bring the fire under contol. Eight units attended the scene […]

A MAN HAS been treated for smoke inhalation after a fire, which may have been sparked by a fault in a television, broke out at an apartment in Dublin’s city centre. The fire started on Pembroke Street and a number of units from Dublin Fire Brigade attended as well as an ambulance. It is thought […]