Boy, 2, reunited with family after investigation

A 2-and-a-half-year-old Roma boy was reunited with his parents in Westmeath just before lunchtime yesterday.

The fair-haired, blue-eyed boy, was taken into care at around 7pm on Tuesday when gardaí called to the boy’s home in Athlone.

The father, from Athlone in the midlands, claimed he and his partner were left in the dark about why the child was put in State care. “I was upset, I just felt so sad — they took my baby,” he said.