A Cork company director who hiked his insurance coverage before setting his own premises on fire and then trying to claim €200,000 insurance received a 10-year suspended jail term yesterday.

A 47-year-old man, who denied arson causing €200,000 to his own business but was found guilty by a jury, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of making a fraudulent insurance claim afterwards.

The 47-year-old man from Passage West who denied arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building where his company had its business was found guilty yesterday.

A 47-year-old man from Passage West accused of arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building and making an insurance claim by deception denied both charges and went on trial by judge and jury yesterday.

IRISH PNEUMATIC SERVICES has been acquired by the Compressor Care Group of companies which includes Munster Air Compressors, Munster Pneumatics and Vertex Industrial Sales.