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2025-12-16 · Rathfarnham, Dublin
A serial arsonist, Colm Dowling (68), was jailed for 15 months after attempting to set a garda's car on fire using vegetable oil and causing over €7,000 in damage to a commercial premises. Dowling pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal damage and has eight previous convictions, including four for arson. He was found with a lighter and vegetable…
2021-04-22 · Whitechurch, Dublin
In a case heard at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, 64‑year‑old Colm Dowling pleaded guilty to arson at Whitechurch Shopping Centre, Ballyboden, on 27 July 2020. He set fire to an empty commercial unit he believed belonged to a woman he knew, thinking that damaging the property would help her with her inheritance. Dowling admitted he had been…