Gardaí investigate alleged daytime child abduction attempt

GARDAÍ say they are taking “seriously” an allegation of attempted child abduction, which is said to have occurred in broad daylight in a Co Cork town.

The eight-year-old boy was walking on his own in a suburb of Cobh at lunchtime yesterday when he was approached by a man driving what was described as either a small black car or van.

A senior Garda spokesman said the boy was walking in the Rushbrooke area at about 1.30pm when the vehicle passed up from behind him, turned a short distance up the road and came back.