Spark & riot arsonist jailed for fire on Luas

A MAN who started a fire on a Luas during the Dublin riots, causing nearly €5million worth of damage, was jailed for three years yesterday.

- BY SONYA McLEAN

At the city's circuit criminal court Evan Moore, 20, admitted rioting and damaging the tram on November 23, 2023.

The riot broke out after a five-year-old girl was severely wounded in a stabbing at Parnell Square earlier that day.

Passing sentence, Judge Orla Crowe said that Moore, who has been in custody since a sentence hearing in May, was “an immature young man who allowed himself to be whipped up by social media”.

She noted it was of concern that Moore, of Grangemore Road, Donaghmede, Dublin, was at an anti-immigration demonstration months later.

She noted the riots caused considerable upset to Dubliners and the entire country.

Judge Crowe said: "To this day it represents a stain on this city."

She set a headline sentence of eight years but reduced it to four after mitigation including that Moore was 18 at the time, his previous clear record, his guilty pleas, his stable family and that he is doing an apprenticeship.