Man who set apartment fire that melted girl's hearing aid in her ear jailed for 10 years

Three children were inside the apartment with their mother, who said her youngest told her he was going to heaven and would come back and help them escape the fire.

A man who set fire to an apartment with three children inside has been jailed for 10 years.

Ian O'Connor (29) of Emmet Crescent, Inchicore, Dublin threw a pipe bomb at another family home less than a month later, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.