According to reports, the gardaí have received a number of phone calls in response to their nationwide appeal yesterday.
Displaying a number of items which included a black plastic bag, fleece throw and green Marks and Spencer bag, Gardaí revealed that the infant had been wrapped in the blanket and black plastic bag before being placed in the chain store bag and left on Steelstown Road.
Commenting on the location of her abandonment, one Garda officer said: "It’s not somewhere you’d abandon a child if you wanted someone to find it and it’s also not the kind of place you’d leave her if you didn’t want people to find her. It’s baffling."
Insisting that welfare of the mother is paramount, gardaí have stressed that she will be treated with the utmost compassion should she come forward.
The infant, who has been deemed healthy enough to be discharged from the Coombe Hospital shortly, has been named Maria and is likely to be placed in short-term foster care while gardaí search for her parents.
By appealing for information and displaying the items which were found at the scene, Superintendent Brendan Connolly says he hope officials can reunite the infant with her mother, saying: "Somebody out there must recognise these items and we are appealing for anyone who can assist us to contact us here in Clondalkin Garda Station."
Acknowledging the sensitivity of the case, he went on to say: "Sergeant Maeve O’Sullivan of the Child Protection Unit here in Clondalkin and her staff are available at any time. Anyone, or indeed any family member or friends, wishing to speak with Sergeant O’Sullivan will be dealt with with the utmost discretion."
Speaking to RTÉ’s Six One news, solicitor Catherine Ghent echoed the sentiments of the gardaí and asserted that the mother will receive due care should she decide to come forward
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