{"id":184354,"date":"2025-12-10T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184354\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:46:11","slug":"how-drug-debt-intimidation-turned-deadly-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184354\/","title":{"rendered":"How drug debt intimidation turned deadly \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Garda\u00ed have opened a double murder investigation after a young boy, Tadhg Farrell (4) and his great-aunt Mary Holt (60) were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/12\/08\/edenderry-firebomb-that-killed-tadhg-farrell-and-mary-holt-was-designed-to-kill-says-ocallaghan\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/12\/08\/edenderry-firebomb-that-killed-tadhg-farrell-and-mary-holt-was-designed-to-kill-says-ocallaghan\/\">killed in a suspected petrol bomb attack <\/a>on a house in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Co Offaly<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Tadhg\u2019s grandmother, who was also in the house on Saturday evening, is in critical condition in hospital having suffered extensive burns in the blaze at Castleview Park, Edenderry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The house has been attacked before, in one incident all its windows were broken in what is believed to be an ongoing drug debt feud. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Garda\u00ed suspect a criminal gang involved in the drugs trade in the Midlands were behind the firebombing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Garda sources said the incident was probably intended as an intimidatory attack and they did not believe the people at the property were the intended targets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Irish Times crime and security correspondent Conor Gallagher reports from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Andrew McNair. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have opened a double murder investigation after a young boy, Tadhg Farrell (4) and his great-aunt Mary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,8286],"class_list":["post-184354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-offaly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184354","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=184354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}