Garda file prepared on €1.5m Titanic blaze

GARDAÍ are preparing a file for the DPP after questioning three men in connection with a fire which caused up to €1.5 million in damage to a restaurant opened by a former Lotto winner.

The men, who gardaí said were in their late teens, were questioned after a blaze broke out in the former Titanic bar and restaurant in Cobh, Co Cork, and spread to the adjoining post office.

The fire broke out at 9.30pm last Saturday and caused extensive damage to the restaurant, which was opened by Vincent Keaney after he became Ireland’s 26th Lotto millionaire in 1994.