{"id":362975,"date":"2026-03-24T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:20:08","slug":"body-discovered-after-horrendous-fire-in-same-edenderry-house-where-boy-and-grandaunt-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362975\/","title":{"rendered":"Body discovered after &#8216;horrendous&#8217; fire in same Edenderry house where boy and grandaunt died\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body has been discovered following a fire in the same house where a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/courtandcrime\/arid-41756573.html\">boy and his grandaunt died<\/a> in an arson attack in Edenderry, Co Offaly last year.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said they are investigating \u201call the circumstances\u201d of the fire at Castleview Park in Edenderry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services attended the fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning and remain at the scene. Local fire services have since extinguished the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The body of an adult was discovered at the house, and an autopsy will be carried out to determine the cause of death, which will determine the course of any Garda investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The scene is currently preserved for garda\u00ed to carry out a forensic examination of the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed in Tullamore are appealing for anyone with any information on this house fire to contact An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Tullamore Garda Station on 057 932 7600, the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is understood that there were people occupying the house from time to time despite the damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Speaking at the scene of the fire on Tuesday, local councillor Fergus McDonnell said neighbours were alerted by their smoke alarms going off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He said the fire was \u201cintense\u201d and has described what happened as \u201chorrendous\u201d, adding that the local community \u201ccan\u2019t comprehend\u201d a second fatal fire has happened at the same house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cPeople just don\u2019t know what to think,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Tuesday afternoon, garda\u00ed were carrying out door-to-door inquiries and fingertip searches in the vicinity of the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Investigators accessed the top floor of the house through the upstairs windows using a ladder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The incident occurred at the same house where four-year-old Tadhg Farrell and his great-aunt Mary Holt were murdered in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The young boy\u2019s grandmother also received hospital treatment for serious burn injuries in that first blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man in his late 20s who had been detained on suspicion of murder was released without charge in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body has been discovered following a fire in the same house where a boy and his grandaunt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7782,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-362975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362975","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=362975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}