A man has been before the District Court in Dublin charged over an alleged arson attack on a mosque in Dublin city centre two days ago.<\/p>\n
Saeid Khosroabadi, 41, of Seville Place, Dublin 1, was arrested following a garda investigation into a blaze at the doorway of the Faizan E Madinah Mosque on Talbot Street, in the north inner city, just before 3.30pm.<\/p>\n
Mr Khosroabadi, an Iranian national, was charged with committing arson, causing criminal damage at the mosque.<\/p>\n
Garda Shane Costello gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution.<\/p>\n
Judge Finan noted that the officer intended to object to bail; however, the accused had no legal representation.<\/p>\n
That was due to the current industrial action, in which solicitors have withdrawn services in a row over changes that will provide flat fees for District Court legal aid cases, which came into force today.<\/p>\n
Solicitor Tracy Horan told Judge Finan she could not represent him as a result of the ongoing dispute between solicitors and the justice minister over reforms to the free legal aid scheme.<\/p>\n
Some 60 solicitors were present in the courtroom in support at the time, and they all then walked out of the building with Ms Horan after she addressed the judge.<\/p>\n
Garda Costello objected to bail based on the seriousness of the offence.<\/p>\n
Judge Finan refused bail and remanded him in custody to appear at Cloverhill District Court on 8 July.<\/p>\n
She also refused jurisdiction meaning it will be sent to the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers.<\/p>\n
She directed the preparation of a book of evidence by the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been before the District Court in Dublin charged over an alleged arson attack on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-528513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528513","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=528513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}