{"id":657664,"date":"2026-10-17T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/657664\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:56:09","slug":"kerry-house-targeted-in-arson-attack-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/657664\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry house targeted in arson attack \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A HOUSE IN Kerry has been targeted in an arson attack in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said that the attack took place at a residence in the Fortfield area of Tralee, Co Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to the report of an incident of criminal damage by fire.<\/p>\n<p>Fire services extinguished the fire and made the area safe.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing, garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a couple and their two young children were killed after their house on the Birchwood estate in Waterford city was set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Kim and Phillip English, and their two children Jayden and Callum, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Two other children, Nadia and Elliot, remain in critical condition in CHI Crumlin.<\/p>\n<p>Two people have since been arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/waterford-arson-arrests-7194520-Oct2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in connection with the arson attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/edenderry-arson-murder-tadhg-farrell-mary-holt-7028988-May2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four-year-old Tadgh Farrell and his great-aunt Mary Holt <\/a>were killed in an arson attack at Castleview Park, Edenderry, on 6 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A HOUSE IN Kerry has been targeted in an arson attack in the early hours of this morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71354,47,278402,61,60,7727,43,18948],"class_list":["post-657664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arson-attack","tag-fire","tag-fortfield","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kerry","tag-news","tag-tralee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657664","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=657664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}