{"id":362384,"date":"2026-03-24T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362384\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:31:07","slug":"body-found-after-fire-at-house-where-two-died-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362384\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found after fire at house where two died last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body has been discovered following a fire at the same house where a young boy and his grand-aunt were murdered in Co Offaly last year.<\/p>\n<p>Four-year-old Tadhg Farrell and his grand-aunt Mary Holt died after a petrol bomb attack on the house in Castleview Park in Edenderry on 6 December.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood this blaze broke out at around 4am and garda\u00ed, ambulance and fire crews attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed one family member had been living at the house, despite the fire last December causing extensive damage to the property.<\/p>\n<p>This morning garda\u00ed confirmed a body had been found at the house.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say they are investigating all the circumstances following the discovery, including that it may have been a tragic incident.<\/p>\n<p>A post mortem examination will be carried out on the body which garda\u00ed say will determine the course of any garda investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The scene is preserved for forensic examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body has been discovered following a fire at the same house where a young boy and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-362384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362384","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=362384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}