Gardaí have released a man arrested last Wednesday in connection with a Co Offaly house fire that killed a young boy and his great-aunt last December.
The man in his 20s was the fifth to be detained as part of the investigation into the suspected petrol bomb attack at a house at Castleview Park, Edenderry, on the evening of December 6th.
Gardaí said the male has not been charged, but a file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Tadgh Farrell (4) and Mary Holt (60) died in the incident. Their remains were discovered in the front room of the house “where the fire was deliberately started”, gardaí said at the time.
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Three other men (20s and 30s) and a teenage boy were also arrested last week.
Michael Dunne (22), with an address in Co Kildare, was last Friday charged with criminal damage and endangerment in connection with the fatal fire.
