Arsonist gets 10 years

An arsonist who carried a lifelong grudge for the rejection of his application to join the Gardaí was jailed for ten years for setting fire to a house of apartments where a young woman died three years ago.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed the sentence on Oliver Walsh, 47, of St John’s Terrace, Roman Street, Cork, on the one charge of committing arson at Langford Row, Summerhill South, Cork, on April 9 2002.