Two years for arsonist who caused €2m damage to HSE building

A middle-aged man who threw a lit tissue through the letterbox of the southern headquarters of the Health Service Executive, causing more than €2m in damage, was today jailed for two years for arson.

Earlier on the day in question Thomas (Tom) Jones (aged 48), formerly of Ringmahon Avenue, Mahon, Cork, got news that his younger brother had been diagnosed with cancer.