{"id":422060,"date":"2026-04-28T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422060\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:47:08","slug":"three-men-arrested-in-connection-with-fatal-edenderry-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422060\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men arrested in connection with fatal Edenderry fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been arrested in connection with the fatal fire which claimed the lives of two people in Edenderry, Co Offaly, in December.<\/p>\n<p>Four-year-old Tadhg Farrell and his great-aunt Mary Holt died in a house fire in Castleview Park.<\/p>\n<p>The young boy\u2019s grandmother also received hospital treatment for serious burn injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A man was arrested in January on suspicion of murder, though he was released without charge.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this investigation, garda\u00ed arrested three men, two in their 20s and one in his 30s, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The three men are currently detained at Garda stations in the midlands under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been arrested in connection with the fatal fire which claimed the lives of two people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-422060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422060","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=422060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}