‘RIP little man. You got your wings too soon’

The River Poddle gurgles gently at the entrance of the apartment complex where the life of a toddler was extinguished at the point of a blade.

Against the soothing sound, broken only by a passing car, forensic officers, clad in distinctive white overalls, moved in their trademark deliberate fashion inside the building.

The Garda Technical Bureau officers stepped in and out of a one-bed apartment, where the remains of the three-year-old boy lay.