{"id":307094,"date":"2026-01-28T01:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307094\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:05:11","slug":"father-of-boy-killed-in-offaly-firebombing-described-as-main-driver-of-local-drugs-trade-as-hes-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307094\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of boy killed in Offaly firebombing described as \u2018main driver\u2019 of local drugs trade as he\u2019s jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Holt\u2019s son Tadgh (4) died in a suspected petrolbomb attack in Edenderry that also killed his aunt and left his mother injuredHolt was refused temporary release to attend the funerals amid security concernsJudge says circumstances of their deaths illustrates \u201cthe profound negative consequences of involvement in the drug industry\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tadgh Farrell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d7c2546e-e569-4719-9242-e4a4e72b7db3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tadgh Farrell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The father of four-year-old Tadgh Farrell, who was killed alongside his grand-aunt in a firebombing attack in Edenderry, has been jailed for seven years for a \u20ac33,000 heroin seizure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Aaron Holt (27), faced sentencing today when Judge Keenan Johnson described him as the &#8220;main driver of a significant amount of drugs&#8221; in his locality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holt\u2019s son Tadgh (4) died in a suspected petrolbomb attack in Edenderry that also killed his aunt and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,23,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-307094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-news-ticker","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115970043083546570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307094","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=307094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}