'Sleep in peace, little Daniel': Donabate mourns child as his suspected remains exhumed

As we wait for answers on what happened to Daniel Aruebose, messages left near where skeletal remains were found highlight the impact the case is having on the community, writes Alison O’Reilly

'Daniel, may your memory change lives across this country'. The message on one of the floral tributes left on Friday afternoon near the scene in Donabate where the suspected remains of three-year-old Daniel Aruebose were found. Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins, Dublin 

From a leafy road in North Dublin there is a humming sound from a generator in a nearby field.

Passers-by could almost miss it, but the line of garda cars along a steel fence make heads turn.