ARRESTS AFTER FIRE AT HEADFORD GARAGE AND SHOP

Date Published: 02-Apr-2008

A number of people have been arrested and questioned in connection with an incident in a Headford garage earlier this week during which petrol was set alight beside pumpsAfter an appeal on Galway Bay fm for information regarding a car which may have been used in the incident Gardai have examined a vehicle and questioned several people.What's believed to be a connected incident in Clonboo is also being investigatedIn the first incident a car is said to have driven up to Monaghan’s Garage, Headford and a man sprayed petrol on an area near the pumps and set it alight.Garage owner Ger Monaghan said he saw what was happening and rushed out into the forecourt with a fire extinguisher and extinguished the blaze. The man ran into the car which then sped off.It's understood that the occupants of the same car drove into Cunniffe's Service Station a few miles away at Clonboo on the Headford Road shortly afterwards and made off with petrol without paying for it.