Child among three injured during escape from suspected arson attack in Cork City

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 people who fled the housefire was a child, understood to be as young as 12.