The victim of a city centre robbery was left frightened by the attack which happened as he walked to his city home shortly before midnight and two of those involved were jailed yesterday.

A sentencing judge said that one of the reasons a teenager was being kept in jail for the reckless burning of a building was to save him from homelessness.

A teenager who set a fire in an apartment building to keep warm, causing €3.65m in criminal damage, was before the court for sentencing yesterday.

A teenager who set a fire in an apartment building to keep warm and left it smouldering ended up causing €3.6m in criminal damage.