{"id":422108,"date":"2026-04-28T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:24:09","slug":"three-men-arrested-over-fatal-house-fire-in-offaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422108\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men arrested over fatal house fire in Offaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been arrested as part of the investigation into the murders of a four-year-old boy and his grand-aunt in Co Offaly last year.<\/p>\n<p>Tadgh Farrell and 60-year-old Mary Holt died in a fire at a house in Castleview Park in Edenderry, after a petrol bomb was thrown through the front window on 6 December.<\/p>\n<p>Tadgh was visiting his grandmother and his grand-aunt at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>His and Ms Holt&#8217;s remains were discovered in the front room, where the fire was deliberately started.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BTS Edenderry 169 alt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/002398c2-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nA petrol bomb was thrown through the window at a house in Edenderry in December<\/p>\n<p>Tadgh&#8217;s grandmother Pauline Holt was also in the house and was seriously injured in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say they arrested two men in their 20s and one in his 30s as part of the investigation this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The men are being held for questioning at garda stations across the midlands, under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n<p>They can be held for questioning for up to seven days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been arrested as part of the investigation into the murders of a four-year-old boy and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-422108","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\/422108","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=422108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}