{"id":429378,"date":"2026-05-02T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:28:07","slug":"man-remanded-in-custody-in-relation-to-alleged-arson-incident-in-mid-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429378\/","title":{"rendered":"Man remanded in custody in relation to alleged arson incident in Mid-Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been remanded in custody in relation to an alleged arson incident in Mid-Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>54-year-old Dariusz Siwiec, with an address at 12 Cois Gallain, Killorglin appeared before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/judge-david-waters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judge David Waters<\/a> at a special sitting of Listowel District Court today.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the 30th of April, at approximately 9:15pm, Mr. Siwiec allegedly carried out the act at house in the estate.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard the house had 5 occupants, including two children aged 5 and 7.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s alleged the suspect secured the gate into the property was with cable ties prior to the fire being started.<\/p>\n<p>He is represented by solicitor Padraig O\u2019Connell and faces two charges in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Waters refused jurisdiction due to the nature of the charges, meaning the matter will not be heard in the district court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Siwiec is set to appear before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.ie\/offices\/tralee-court-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tralee Circuit Court<\/a> this Wednesday 6th of May, via video link.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been remanded in custody in relation to an alleged arson incident in Mid-Kerry. 54-year-old Dariusz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[187562,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-429378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arson-incident","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}