{"id":423049,"date":"2026-04-29T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:25:09","slug":"three-men-and-teen-arrested-as-part-of-investigation-into-edenderry-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423049\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men and teen arrested as part of investigation into Edenderry house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men and a teenager have been arrested as part of an investigation into the fatal house fire in Co Offaly in which a woman and child died.<\/p>\n<p>Four-year-old Tadhg Farrell and his great-aunt Mary Holt were killed in the blaze in Castleview Park, Edenderry, on December 6th.<\/p>\n<p>The young boy\u2019s grandmother received serious burn injuries in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said they had arrested three men, two aged in their 20s and one in his 30s, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They later added that they had arrested a fourth male, a juvenile aged in his teens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"428\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/three-men-and-teen-arrested-as-part-of-investigation-into-edenderry-house-fire.jpg\" alt=\"A member of the Garda technical bureau conducts a forensic investigation at a property in Castleview Park in Edenderry, Co Offaly\" data-title=\"Edenderry death\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Niall Carson\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>The property was attacked shortly before 7:45pm on December 6th (Niall Carson\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>They were being detained at Garda stations in the Midlands under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said investigations were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The child had been visiting his grandmother and great-aunt when the home was attacked shortly before 7:45pm.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators previously released CCTV footage of the attack that appeared to show two hooded individuals smashing a window before setting an object on fire and throwing it into the property.<\/p>\n<p>The incident in December drew political attention and prompted locals to hold a vigil for the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men and a teenager have been arrested as part of an investigation into the fatal house fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-423049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423049","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=423049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}