{"id":219984,"date":"2025-12-07T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219984\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:37:08","slug":"woman-and-young-boy-killed-in-co-offaly-house-fire-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219984\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman and young boy killed in Co Offaly house fire \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman and a young boy have died as a result of a fatal fire at a domestic residence in Edenderry, Co Offaly, on Saturday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed and other emergency services attended at the scene at about 7.45pm on Saturday.  The fire has been extinguished by the local fire service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda headquarters confired a woman in her 60s and a young boy were fatally injured in the fire, while another woman (50s) is receiving hospital treatment for serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> in Tullamore are appealing for any witnesses to come forward to assist with their investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman and a young boy have died as a result of a fatal fire at a domestic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,3171,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-219984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-offaly","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115677852077577952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}