In a jarring update on Sunday afternoon, Gardai confirmed to Extra.ie that they had launched a murder investigation. A Garda spokesperson said that the house fire had been started deliberately in a ...

Gardaí (Irish police) have launched a murder investigation after a woman and young boy died in a house fire in County Offaly. They have been named as 60-year-old Mary Holt and four-year-old Tadhg ...

The two males who carried out this fatal arson attack left the scene at Castleview Park, Edenderry, in this Black Kia Rio.

A fire at a house in Co Offaly in which two people died was “designed to kill inhabitants”, the Irish justice minister has said. A murder investigation has been launched after the deaths of a woman ...

The woman who died in a house fire that also claimed the life of a four-year-old boy following a "reckless, callous and murderous attack on a family home" has been named locally. Mary Holt, in her 60s ...

A murder probe has been initiated following a house fire that took the lives of two individuals in Co Offaly. Mary Holt, 60, and Tadhg Farrell, four, tragically lost their lives in the blaze at a ...

A young boy and a 60-year-old woman have died in a house fire in County Offaly. Gardaí (Irish police) say the fire occurred at a domestic residence in Castleview Park, Edenderry, at 19:45 local time ...