Youths behind €400k arson attack

GARDAÍ believe a gang of youths may have been responsible for a €400,000 arson attack which gutted two near-completed houses in an estate in west Waterford.

Firebrigades rushed to the scene in Lismore just before 1.30am on Saturday to find what a garda spokesman described as “an inferno”.

Supt Tom O’Grady, who is leading the investigation, said the fire began at the Mills estate, a short distance from the Catholic Church and affected about 10 out of 60 houses.