2014-11-24
Arsonist who caused almost €400k in damage spared jail
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Martin Nolan sentenced him to five years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, but suspended it in full after he accepted a garda's view that the arson was a one-off "act of madness". Today Cooney, of St Finian's Avenue, Lucan, Co Dublin, was told to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for the five years of his suspended sentence.