{"id":244287,"date":"2026-01-14T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244287\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:13:10","slug":"man-20s-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-over-fatal-edenderry-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244287\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (20s) arrested on suspicion of murder over fatal Edenderry arson attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tadgh Farrell (4) and his grandaunt Mary Holt (60) died after a petrol bomb was thrown through the living room window of the family home\n<\/p>\n

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Tadgh Farrell (4) and his grandaunt Mary Holt (60)<\/p>\n

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Tadgh Farrell<\/p>\n

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A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection to the fatal arson attack that killed two people in Co Offaly last month.<\/p>\n

Tadgh Farrell (4) and his grandaunt Mary Holt (60) died after a petrol bomb was thrown through the living room window of the family home in Castleview Park, Edenderry, Co. Offaly, on December 6.<\/p>\n

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Tadgh Farrell (4) and his grandaunt Mary Holt (60)<\/p>\n

Today’s News in 90 – Wednesday January 14 <\/p>\n

The child\u2019s grandmother Pauline, who was babysitting Tadhg alongside her sister, suffered serious burn injuries in the blaze and remains hospitalised.<\/p>\n

It has been confirmed by garda\u00ed that a man was arrested on Wednesday amid the ongoing investigation into the attack.<\/p>\n

A Garda spokesperson added: \u201cHe is currently detained on suspicion of murder under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, at a Garda station in the midlands.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvestigations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is understood that the garda probe has been investigating a potential link between the incident and an attack on a gang associate in the Midlands Prison hours earlier.<\/p>\n

Last month, a total of five prisoners, including Tadhg\u2019s father, Aaron Holt (27), were arrested by garda\u00ed and quizzed about the circumstances surrounding the prison altercation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0 Tadgh Farrell (4) and his grandaunt Mary Holt (60) died after a petrol bomb was thrown through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-244287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244287","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=244287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}