{"id":422207,"date":"2026-04-28T20:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:36:07","slug":"three-arrested-over-edenderry-house-fire-that-killed-tadhg-farrell-4-and-mary-holt-60-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422207\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested over Edenderry house fire that killed Tadhg Farrell (4) and Mary Holt (60) \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Three men have been arrested in connection with a house fire in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\">Offaly<\/a> that killed a young boy and his great-aunt in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Tadhg Farrell (4) and Mary Holt (60) died in a suspected petrol bomb attack of a house at Castleview Park, Edenderry, on the evening of December 6th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Their remains were discovered in the front room of the house \u201cwhere the fire was deliberately started\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">garda\u00ed<\/a> said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">In an update on Tuesday evening, the Garda said three men, two aged in their 20s and one in his 30s, have been arrested as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The three men are currently detained at Garda stations in the midlands under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">\u201cInvestigations are ongoing,\u201d a Garda spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been arrested in connection with a house fire in Co Offaly that killed a young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43,8286],"class_list":["post-422207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-offaly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422207","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=422207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}