Gardaí thank public after missing boy is found safe and well

Richard Roche went missing for a few hours this afternoon.

Updated 7.45pm

GARDAÍ HAVE THANKED the public for their assistance in helping find a five-year-old boy who had been missing since this afternoon.

Richard Roche, who is from Wexford, was last seen at 3pm on the swings in the People’s Park in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, before going missing for a few hours.

Gardaí released a statement shortly after 7.30pm saying he had been found safe and well.

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