The tight-knit community of Rindoon Park and Hazelwood in Athlone was last night coming to terms with the tragic drowning of two-year-old Liam Keogh.

FURTHER to Maurice O’Connell’s letter (“Naysayers have no right to deny us a rerun of the referendum”, The Irish Examiner, August 28) may I use his logic to request a referendum rerun on the recently outlawed death penalty followed