Runaway Theo takes it all in his stride

Relief. It was written all over his mother’s face, but for little Theo Costelloe, it was smiles all round.

Nothing seemed to faze the toddler at his press conference, but then again, this was the child who had climbed out of his cot in the dead of night before he was found walking more than 1km from his home in Aspen Gardens in Limerick.

The two-year-old had managed to cross the N7 roadway at traffic lights and wandered farther down the road when he was spotted by student James Ryan near the Dublin Road on his way home from work.