Heartbroken Bridget O'Donoghue has described the moment she was told by doctors at Cork University Hospital that little Santina Cawley had passed away.

The child's father, Michael, found her lying unconscious having suffered multiple bone fractures, cuts and bruises in the Elderwood Park complex off Boreenmanna Road.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a toddler in Cork are renewing their appeals for information.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a toddler in Cork are preparing a file for the DPP after releasing a woman without charge.

The woman who was arrested in connection with the investigation into the death of Cork toddler Santina Cawley has been released without charge.

A fundraising appeal to cover the funeral costs of a toddler who was killed in Cork raised more than €8,000 in just a few hours, with €3,000 of that being donated in the first hour.

A woman in her thirties has been arrested in connection with the murder of two-year-old Santina Cawley

Gardaí involved in a murder inquiry following the death of a toddler in Cork City on Friday have established that the child was at a house party with her father and his partner just hours before her death.