Young Corkman jailed for threatening to burn his mother's bedroom down

The safety order breach happened within a day of being released from Cork Prison where he served another sentence for the same crime.

Judge Olann Kelleher said: “I have great concern for his mother. It is a matter for himself. His mother is absolutely scared of him.”

A four-month jail term was imposed on a man who put his own mother in fear by threatening to burn out her bedroom.

The young man breached the safety order under the Domestic Violence Act by carrying out this behaviour within a day of being released from Cork Prison where he served another sentence for the same crime.