Killing puts end to childhood freedoms

It was a terrible thing to happen, and if it happened in England or the US you wouldn’t have given it a second thought, the man said.

But it had happened on his doorstep, near Inch beach in East Cork and, he said, people couldn't stop thinking about it, talking about it or wondering what to do about it.

"People aren't leaving their children out of their sight. They aren't even leaving them outside. There's kids who won't be let outside the door of their own houses until this guy is caught," he said.