Cork gardaí: Toddler was at house party just hours before death

Gardaí involved in a murder inquiry following the death of a toddler in Cork City on Friday have established that the child was at a house party with her father and his partner just hours before her death.

Santina Cawley, aged two, was in the company of her father, Mike Cawley, and his partner, who is not the child’s mother, at a party with a number of others in a property to the rear of the Elderwood complex off Boreenmanna Road early last Friday morning.