{"id":423425,"date":"2026-04-29T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423425\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:51:10","slug":"boy-arrested-over-arson-deaths-of-tadgh-farrell-4-and-mary-holt-was-allegedly-active-participant-in-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423425\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy arrested over arson deaths of Tadgh Farrell (4) and Mary Holt was allegedly \u2018active participant\u2019 in attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tadgh Farrell and Mary Holt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e8be6077-e464-4a98-ac65-fea0ddfca8ef.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tadgh Farrell and Mary Holt<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A teenage boy who was arrested on Tuesday is suspected of being an \u201cactive participant\u201d in a reckless arson attack that led to a double murder and has been allegedly \u201cplaced at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tadgh Farrell and 60-year-old Mary Holt died in a fire at a house in Castleview Park in Edenderry, when a suspected petrol bomb was thrown through the front window on December 6 last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Tadgh Farrell and Mary Holt A teenage boy who was arrested on Tuesday is suspected of being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-423425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423425","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=423425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}