Damage to a Luas on O'Connell Street following riots in Dublin in 2023. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.
A young man who started a fire on a Luas during the Dublin riots, causing nearly €5 million worth of damage, has been jailed for three years.
Evan Moore (20) of Grangemore Road, Donaghmede, Dublin 13, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to rioting, damaging a Luas by fire and damaging the windows of a Luas tram on November 23rd, 2023. He has been in custody since a sentence hearing last May.
The riot broke out after a five-year-old girl was severely wounded in a stabbing at Parnell Square earlier that day, in which two other children and a creche worker were als
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