#arson-attack

#arson-attack

Tadgh Farrell (4) and his grandaunt Mary Holt (60) died after a petrol bomb was thrown through the living room window of the family home in Castleview Park, Edenderry, Co. Offaly, on December 6. The child's grandmother Pauline, who was babysitting Tadhg alongside her sister, suffered serious burn injuries in the blaze and remains hospitalised. It has been confirmed by gardaí that a man was arrested on Wednesday amid the ongoing investigation into the attack. A Garda spokesperson added: "He is currently detained on suspicion of murder under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, at a Garda station in the midlands."

Wegner, from the conservative Christian Democratic Union party of the chancellor, Friedrich Merz, had told reporters on Sunday that he had been working round the clock to mitigate the impact of the blackout and get the power back on. I was neither bored nor putting my feet up, but was on the phone all day trying to coordinate and get as much information as possible, he said,and had literally locked myself in my office at home.

Criminals connected to Drogheda feud were intended targets in petrol-bombing that led to an innocent family being hospitalised

"He was only four."

Tadgh and his grand-aunt Mary Holt died from their injuries after the room they were in was set alight in the "callous and murderous attack" at a house in Castleview Park in Edenderry on Saturday night, December 6. The funeral mass for Tadgh from Killane Drive in Edenderry will take place tomorrow at midday in St Mary's Church in Edenderry, followed by burial in St Mary's cemetery.

A Louth nurese and county councillor has praised the courage of residents and the compassion shown by Drogheda locals in the aftermath of the deliberate arson attack that tore through an International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) centre in the town on Halloween night.

Sentencing the men, a judge at the Old Bailey said they had planned a campaign of terrorism and sabotage in the interests of the Russian state. Dylan Earl was handed 17 years and a further six years on extended licence for his leading role. Jake Reeves, from Croydon in south London, was given 12 years in prison with one year on extended licence. The offences they admitted made them the first to be convicted under the National Security Act 2023.

"You are vile," Miller wrote, directly responding to Goldstein's tweet. "Deeply warped and vile." Yet, Miller has repeatedly referred to Dems as "fascists," and at Charlie Kirk's memorial in September, declared: "You have no idea the dragon you have awakened, how determined we will be to save this civilization, to save the West, to save this republic...and what will you leave behind? Nothing, nothing."

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