Arsonists were refused entry into wedding
It is looking like those who set fire to a house on Byrne Avenue in Prospect by way of a petrol bomb did so because they were refused entry into the afters party of the wedding the house’ owners were attending.
The residents of the house were attending the wedding of a relative who was getting married. When the men were refused entry into the party taking place at a city hotel, they sought revenge by setting fire to the house of one of the bride’s relatives.
The 18 year old babysitter who was in the house with the nine month old baby when the petrol bomb came through the front window was awoken by the sound of breaking glass, managed to grab the baby and make her escape downstairs and through the back door of the house.
The men who tried to gain entry into the wedding party were on the hunt for late night drink.
Gardai have told Jimmy Woulfe of the Irish Examiner that the attack was not feud related.
With any luck CCTV footage from the hotel might identify those who attacked the house, and some arrests can be made.