Overview
- Emergency services responded shortly before 7.45pm Saturday to a house in Castleview Park, Edenderry, where a woman in her 60s and a four-year-old boy were found dead.
- A second woman in her 50s was rescued from the property and is receiving hospital treatment for serious injuries.
- The home has been declared a crime scene and is undergoing a technical examination by the Garda Technical Bureau, with the coroner and State Pathologist notified.
- Post-mortems by Assistant State Pathologist Margot Bolster are scheduled at Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore this afternoon.
- The inquiry is being directed from an incident room at Tullamore Garda Station under a Senior Investigating Officer, with a Family Liaison Officer appointed and specific appeals for information or dashcam footage from 7pm to 8pm on Saturday.