Man threatened students with scissors during robbery

A convicted arsonist has been jailed for three years after he terrorised four Nepalese students at a Limerick apartment.

Alan Culhane, originally from Limerick, had been jailed for seven years in Britain in April 2001 for setting fire to a house after tying up the occupant.

In this incident, the 35-year-old stabbed two students with a scissors after he broke into their apartment on Lower Glentworth St in Limerick — around 100m from Limerick’s Garda Divisional Headquarters.