2 h. ago Fatal firebombing in Edenderry may be linked to prison fight

Tadhg Farrell (4) and his great-aunt Mary Holt (60) were killed in attack on family home in Offaly

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2 h. ago Prison fight may be linked to Edenderry firebomb attack that killed Tadhg Farrell (4) and Mary Holt (60)

Tadhg Farrell (4) and his great-aunt Mary Holt (60) were killed in attack on family home in Offaly

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2 h. ago Couple who carried out hammer attack in which grandmother lost eye have convictions upheld

Gerard Stokes (44) and his co-accused Samantha Campbell (36) were convicted of inflicting what a judge described as a “punishment beating” on the woman over alleged missing drugs

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10 h. ago Prison Service must pay €60,000 in compensation to officer injured in brutal attack

Kim Dempsey has suffered from chronic and ongoing lower back pain since the assault at the Midlands Prison.

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14 h. ago Man with 341 previous convictions is jailed over threat to kill heavily pregnant partner

CCTV footage showed him pursuing the woman while brandishing a hammer, court told

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15 h. ago Dublin man with 341 previous convictions jailed over threat to kill pregnant partner

Dean Joyce, of Rowlagh Park, Clondalkin, pleaded guilty to one count of threatening to kill and one count of simple assault of his then partner, who was eight months pregnant at the time

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15 h. ago Dublin man sentenced for arson after manslaughter conviction quashed

Dublin man sentenced for arson after manslaughter conviction quashed  Dublin People

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15 h. ago Edenderry murders: Gardaí probing whether result of prison fight was motive for attack on home

Four-year-old Tadhg Farrell and his great-aunt Mary Holt, 60, were entirely innocent victims in the blaze.

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16 h. ago Gardaí investigating Edenderry firebomb attack suspect involvement of rival drugs gang

Victims of Co Offaly blaze named as Tadhg Farrell (4) and his great-aunt Mary Holt (60)

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16 h. ago Drugs gang suspected in Edenderry firebomb attack that killed woman and four

Victims of Co Offaly blaze named as Tadhg Farrell (4) and his great-aunt Mary Holt (60)

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17 h. ago Taoiseach leads tributes to boy and great aunt killed in petrol bomb attack in Edenderry

The Taoiseach said that it is “difficult to comprehend” the level of “inhumanity” involved in the deadly attack.

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19 h. ago Dublin man gets arson sentence after manslaughter conviction quashed

Dublin man gets arson sentence after manslaughter conviction quashed  Dublin Gazette Newspapers

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19 h. ago Drones during Zelensky’s Dublin visit ‘part of coordinated threat’

Drones during Zelensky’s Dublin visit ‘part of coordinated threat’  The IndependentZelensky’s plane ‘followed by military drones’ before Dublin visit in ‘hybrid attack’  the-independent.comUkraine war briefing: drones reportedly spotted near Zelenskyy flight path on Dublin trip  The Guardian

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20 h. ago Gardaí believe woman and child killed in Edenderry fire were not intended targets of attack

Investigators believe a petrol bomb sparked the blaze that claimed the lives of a child and his great-aunt.

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23 h. ago National: Double murder investigation opened into Offaly firebomb attack

Shock continues to surround the death of a four-year-old boy and his grand-aunt in an attack on a home in… The post National: Double murder investigation opened into Offaly firebomb attack appeared first on Donegal Daily.

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33 h. ago Murder victims in Edenderry fire named by gardaí as Mary Holt (60) and Tadhg Farrell (4)

“This was a reckless, callous and murderous attack on a family home,” gardaí said in a statement.

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34 h. ago ‘Reckless, callous attack’: Woman (60) and boy (4) killed in fire named

Garda believes blaze was started deliberately in a ‘murderous attack’

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35 h. ago ‘People are afraid’: Offaly town shocked by murderous arson attack in quiet estate

Many of the people in the estate are elderly, people who raised their children together and know each other well

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35 h. ago Couple who had termination after wrongful advice highlight ‘years of extraordinary pain to reach this point’

Rebecca Price and Pat Kiely were advised to terminate their healthy baby after receiving a misdiagnosis

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35 h. ago Couple who had termination after wrongful advice highlight ‘years of extraordinary pain’

Rebecca Price and Pat Kiely were advised to terminate their healthy baby after receiving a misdiagnosis

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