Three-year suspended sentence for man who set 'wrong' house on fire

A man who set the "wrong" neighbour's house on fire with a petrol bomb while young children were sleeping inside has been given a three-year suspended sentence.

James Dorrington (aged 21) of Liscarne Gardens, Clondalkin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to causing criminal damage to a roof as well as possession of a firearm.