A 15-year-old boy has been charged with arson at a popular south Dublin pub.<\/p>\n
The boy, who cannot be named because he is a juvenile, appeared at the Dublin Children’s Court.<\/p>\n
He is accused of causing criminal damage by fire to three air conditioning units, a wooden partition, and the flooring and roofing of a beer garden at the Goat Bar and Grill in Goatstown, on a date in May 2025.<\/p>\n
The Director of Public Prosecutions recommended that he face trial at a higher level in the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers.<\/p>\n
Judge Brendan Toale granted the defence’s application for disclosure of prosecution evidence and set the case down for a preliminary hearing in June to determine the trial.<\/p>\n
This procedure is provided for under section 75 of the Children Act, which states that the Children’s Court may accept jurisdiction for a serious case by considering defence submissions on the accused’s age and level of maturity, as well as other relevant factors.<\/p>\n
The boy was remanded on continuing bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy has been charged with arson at a popular south Dublin pub. The boy, who cannot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-466391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466391","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=466391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}