The blaze was believed to have started in a communal area inside the flats at Society Street.

Detectives are appealing for information following the attack in the early hours of Saturday.

The youth, who cannot be identified because he is a juvenile, was arrested over an alleged crime spree from January 24th to March 2nd this year.

A sentencing hearing at the three-judge Special Criminal Court also heard on Monday that 24-year-old Abdullah Khan, who describes himself as a Salafi jihadist, is part of a "wider group of people of a like-minded mindset".

Anthony Kavanagh (44) purchased a bottle of petrol and poured it outside the front door of the apartment in Inchicore, Dublin 8 on August 15 last. Another unidentified man ignited the fire, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.

John Ryan (34) was jailed by Judge Simon McAleese at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court after he admitted the charges

Police were alerted to the incident on the Killyleagh Road early on Friday morning.

The 32-year-old has since been released on bail pending further investigations.

Police said the incident on Saturday was a ‘clear attempt to destroy someone’s home’.

Four-year-old Tadhg Farrell and his great-aunt Mary Holt died in a house fire in Castleview Park, Edenderry, on December 6th.

Abdullah Khan, with an address in Dublin that cannot be revealed due to a court order, was arraigned on eight counts.

The PSNI say two masked men smashed windows and doused a car and the house in accelerant before setting them on fire.

Gardaí are appealing for information in relation to the fire, which broke out in the Creston Avenue area at about 12:45am on New Year’s Eve.

Arsonists attacked the wrong house for the second time when they threw a petrol bomb into the property in Finglas at around 12.45am on Wednesday. Five people, including three children, were rescued.

The two males who carried out this fatal arson attack left the scene at Castleview Park, Edenderry, in this Black Kia Rio.

Police are appealing for information after a brick was thrown through a window in an arson attack in north Belfast.

Local TD Johnny Guirke said those who carried out the attack should be "ashamed".

Leanne Kelly (34) told Judge Martina Baxter to “fuck off” and to sentence her on Tuesday instead of putting the case back for a governor's report and urine analysis.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Kevin Kinsella (35) of Annesley Close, Ballybough, Dublin 3, pleaded guilty to one count of arson committed in the Summerhill area of Dublin on July 2nd, 2024.

Three people escaped the property uninjured, police said.

Maureen McCormack of Esker, Co Offaly, pleaded guilty to arson at the Bank of Ireland branch in the town on October 6th, 2021

George Turner, 56, murdered Emma McCrory (née Costello), 45, by setting fire to her home on December 15th, 2022

Abdullah Khan, with an address in north Dublin, appeared at Cloverhill District Court on Wednesday for his fifth hearing since being charged and has not yet applied for bail.

John Patrick Nixon, 38, from Irish Street in Armagh, is facing two counts of attempted murder over the incident at the Toby Jug bar in the city.

A fire was set at a mobile phone mast in Poleglass in the latest attack.

In the latest incident a fire was started at the 5G mast in the Annadale Embankment area of south Belfast on Wednesday evening.

Gardaí are monitoring a number of individuals in the east Limerick riverside village in an effort to quell rising tensions.

Celine Carroll (46) set fire to one power box and was observed on live footage attempting to set fire to a second power box by gardaí

The fires were set in Derry and Lurgan.

The court heard that gardaí were called to a car on fire in a driveway in Tyrconnell, Inchicore at 3.15am on the morning in question. The owner woke to a loud bang, looked out his window and saw his car on fire.

The report is being treated as arson with intent to endanger life.

The teen was remanded to the Oberstown Children Detention Campus after appearing before Judge Maire Conneely at Dublin District Court.

Police said they had arrested a 42-year-old man on suspicion of a number of counts of arson.

The court heard that €80-90,000 in damage was caused during the attack and the victims, which included the defendant's father, were “left with nothing”.

The scene was sealed off by gardaí after emergency services responded to the scene.

O'Connor has 16 previous convictions, all District Court matters, including for public order offences and theft.

Damage was caused to both the internal and external front door areas of the house in the Gweebara Park aera.

Four properties located in and around the town were attacked with petrol bombs at around 4am on Friday morning

“It’s difficult to conceive of a more serious arson offence,” said Niall Storan BL, for the DPP

Edward Campion (38) pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court

These arrests form part of an ongoing garda investigation aimed at disrupting these criminal elements, gardaí said.

Garda sources said the same house was targeted in a petrol bombing last October.

The man used an axe to damage the car, which was parked outside a house in the Limerick region, and then set the vehicle on fire using a can of petrol and a rag