Three people who were arrested, as part of an investigation into the deaths of a four-year-old boy and his grand-aunt in Co Offaly last year, have been released without charge.<\/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 his grandmother and his grand-aunt at the time of the attack. His remains and Ms Holt’s remains were discovered in the front room.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week garda\u00ed arrested two men in their 20s and a man in his 30s as part of the investigation. A boy aged in his teens was also arrested.<\/p>\n
One of the men in his 20s and the man in his 30s as well as the teenage boy were released without charge, garda\u00ed said this evening.<\/p>\n
A file will now be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n
The other man in his 20s remains in garda custody this evening, garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n
A fifth person, also in his 20s, appeared in court yesterday, charged in connection with the fire.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people who were arrested, as part of an investigation into the deaths of a four-year-old boy and…\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-429422","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\/429422","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=429422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429422\/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=429422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}