Abandoned baby’s family due to travel from Germany

Staff at a Dublin guesthouse were still reeling yesterday after a baby was abandoned there by his mother at the weekend.

A German woman left the baby, just weeks old, in her room before ordering a taxi for a flight home. A shocked cleaner found the baby nearly three hours later.

Gardaí have been in contact with German police and the German embassy in a bid to contact the woman and encourage her to return for her baby.