{"id":182031,"date":"2025-12-09T01:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182031\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:05:11","slug":"prison-dispute-linked-to-fatal-arson-attack-in-offaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182031\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Dispute Linked To Fatal Arson Attack In Offaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 8 December 2025 17:37\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6936e4845326e.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            A Garda Investigation is ongoing.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Journal.ie is reporting a prison dispute may be behind a fatal arson attack in Offaly.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of a number of theories investigators are considering after the incident in Edenderry claimed the lives of 60 year old Mary Holt, and 4 year old Tadgh Farrell.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed the prison fight took place between a man, who is known to garda\u00ed and who is related to Mary Holt, and an associate of a well-known criminal figure in the midlands.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate the outcome of the fight caused another man, who is also connected to the criminal figure to launch the attack on the house in the Castleview Park estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 8 December 2025 17:37 A Garda Investigation is ongoing. The Journal.ie is reporting a prison dispute may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3279,319,42,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,40,38,41,39,59],"class_list":["post-182031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-headlines","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182031","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=182031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}