Arson probe in Cork City after man injured jumping from burning Rochestown house

He and two others have been brought to hospital 

Gardaí are investigating the circumstances surrounding of an overnight house fire at Siver Birch off the Rochestown Road at around 12.30am.

A mother and her two sons were forced to escape a housefire in a suspected arson attack on a family home in a Cork suburb in the early hours of Monday morning.

One of the sons, aged 24, jumped from the first-floor window to escape the fire in the Silver Birch estate in Rochestown on the city’s southside. It is believed that the 24-year-old sustained leg injuries, including a broken ankle, in the fall from the upstairs window.