Woman sets herself alight

A woman poured diesel over herself then set fire to it at a filling station in west Dublin last night.

A woman poured diesel over herself then set fire to it at a filling station in west Dublin last night.

The woman, who is believed to about 30, is a voluntary patient at St Loman's Hospital, Palmerstown. Staff at Ballydowd filling station, Lucan, used a fire extinquisher on the woman's burning jacket and she was not seriously injured. The incident happened at around 7.30 p.m.