The incident took the lives of a young boy and a woman in her 60s.
Gardai say they’re continuing to investigate all the circumstances of the housefire in Offaly that left two people dead.
Four-year old Tadhg Farrell and 60-year-old Mary Holt were killed in an arson attack in a house in Edenderry on Saturday night.
Taoiseach Michael Martin is describing it as an ‘attack on society itself’.
Crime journalist with the Irish Independent Paul Williams believes it was an incident involving intimidation:
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