Man pleads guilty to setting fire to five Cork city centre stores

Shops included outlets of TK Maxx, Superdry, Lifestyle Sports, Next, Boots and Brown Thomas

Samuel Nunes Neto was sent forward for trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. Picture: Larry Cummins

Signed pleas of guilty were entered on Wednesday by a young man charged with carrying out arson attacks at six stores in Cork city on February 25 last.

When Samuel Nunes Neto, 24, of no fixed abode, first appeared before Cork District Court there were concerns about his psychiatric condition.