A baby was taken to hospital last night after the second petrol bomb attack on homes in a Cork housing estate in two nights. Gardaí are now examining possible connections between the two incidents in Mayfield, on the city’s northside. In the latest incident, the alarm was raised at around 10.20pm last night when a suspected petrol bomb device was thrown at the front of a house in Liffey Park. READ MORE Man dies following assault in KilkennyThere was another petrol bomb attack on a house on the same housing estate on Wednesday night. Both scenes have been the subject of a forensic and technical examination by Garda forensic experts in an effort to gather evidence.

Source: Irish Examiner February 07, 2020 09:33 UTC