{"id":424941,"date":"2026-04-30T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424941\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:53:10","slug":"fifth-arrest-over-fatal-house-fire-in-offaly-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424941\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth arrest over fatal house fire in Offaly in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five people are now being questioned as part of the investigation into the murders of a 4-year-old boy and his grand aunt in Edenderry, Co Offaly last year.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed said a fifth arrest, a man in his 20s, was made yesterday evening.<\/p>\n

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

Tadgh was visiting the house at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n

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\nA petrol bomb was thrown through the window at a house in Edenderry in December<\/p>\n

His remains and Ms Holt’s remains were discovered in the front room, where the fire was deliberately started.<\/p>\n

Tadgh’s grandmother, Pauline Holt, was also in the house and was seriously injured in the fire.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed made several arrests in the investigation on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Two men in their 20s, one in his 30s and a teenage boy were detained.<\/p>\n

All five arrested are all being held at garda stations in the east and midlands under Section 5 of the Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n

They can be questioned for up to seven days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people are now being questioned as part of the investigation into the murders of a 4-year-old boy…\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-424941","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\/424941","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=424941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424941\/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=424941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}