Walkabout Limerick toddler ran into mother’s arms

It is every parent’s worst nightmare. A knock on the door in the middle of the night to ask if you are missing a child.

But this is what happened to Christine Costelloe, who only realised her son Theo, 2, was missing was when gardaí woke her in the middle of the night.

Speaking at Henry Street Garda Station yesterday, Christine said: “I was asleep and unaware that anything was wrong. I had gone to bed at around 11pm. Then I was awoken by gardaí downstairs calling if there was anybody in the house. When I went downstairs they asked me if I had a son.