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Terry Prone: We may be better at 'performative empathy' than at being informers

It was State bureaucracy, and not the concern of individuals, that activated the investigation into a missing three-year-old boy
Terry Prone: We may be better at 'performative empathy' than at being informers

Floral tributes at the entrance to the scene in Donabate, where the suspected remains of three-year-old Daniel Aruebose were found in Donabate. Picture: Sam Boal/ Collins

Every working day for the last three weeks, I have driven past an unmarked shallow grave. A crime scene. 

When the journeys on those days were at RTÉ’s  Drivetime, they were accompanied by reports about a missing child. Each of those reports mentioned the search of a field in Donabate.

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