Overview
- Four-year-old Tadhg Farrell and his 60-year-old grand-aunt Mary Holt died in the Castleview Park blaze in Edenderry on Saturday evening.
- A second woman in her 50s was rescued and is being treated for serious injuries at Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore.
- Gardaí say the house was deliberately set on fire in a "reckless, callous and murderous" attack, and the scene remains sealed for forensic examination by the Garda Technical Bureau.
- Post-mortems were conducted by Assistant State Pathologist Margot Bolster, and an incident room at Tullamore Garda Station is directing the inquiry.
- Investigators appealed for witnesses and dashcam footage from 7pm to 8pm on 6 December, with RTÉ reporting a line of inquiry into a petrol-bomb attack linked to drug-debt intimidation.