Father abducted girl at Christmas

A garda search was put into effect on Christmas Day after the abduction of a two-year-old girl by her father, who had been given a supervised access visit.

The child was brought to the car park of a pub on the outskirts of Cork City for the supervised access.

However, the girl’s father put her in his van and drove away, in contravention of the access arrangement that had been put in place by court order.