Irish Examiner view: Security at Ipas centres needs review

To terrorise innocent people in this way is almost beyond comprehension and there is little by way of consolation in the fact that the forces of law will inevitably catch up with the person responsible

Rioters set a garda van alight outside the Citywest Ipas centre in Saggart, Dublin, last month. Picture: Padraig O'Reilly

The grainy CCTV images of a hooded man kicking in the front door of a sanctuary home for immigrants to this country and setting fire to the stairs, while women and young children slept upstairs, has to be a wake-up call.

That four terrified children and an adult had to be rescued from the top floor of the blazing building in what was clearly an attempted arson, can only add to the broad disquiet caused by this incident.