{"id":427177,"date":"2026-05-01T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427177\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:45:07","slug":"man-to-appear-in-court-charged-over-fatal-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427177\/","title":{"rendered":"Man to appear in court charged over fatal house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 20s arrested as part of an investigation into a fatal house fire in Co Offaly last year has been charged.<\/p>\n<p>Four-year-old Tadgh Farrell and 60-year-old Mary Holt died in a fire at a house in Castleview Park in Edenderry on 6 December.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, garda\u00ed made a number of arrests as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Two men in their 20s, one in his 30s and a teenage boy, were detained.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth arrest, a man in his 20s, was made on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said this afternoon that the man charged will appear before Tullamore District Court this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The four others arrested in connection with the investigation remain in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 20s arrested as part of an investigation into a fatal house fire in Co&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-427177","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\/427177","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=427177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427177\/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=427177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}