THE head of a major search for a two-year-old Irish girl who disappeared in New Zealand on Monday has admitted the toddler may have been kidnapped to order.

Authorities in New Zealand are treating the disappearance of an Irishman's baby daughter as an abduction.

THE utter wretchedness of an Irish father was plain to see as he told a press conference he and his family were “barely existing” as they awaited news on their two-year-old daughter who is missing from her New Zealand home for nearly five days.