New search for missing six-year-old schoolboy

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Kyran Durnin is believed to have been murdered more than two years ago when he was six years old

A property in Drogheda, County Louth, is being searched as part of the investigation into the suspected ******* of a six-year-old schoolboy who disappeared more than two years ago.

Kyran Durnin was reported missing from his home in Drogheda in August last year, but gardaí (Irish police) believe he may have been killed more than two years earlier.

They began a ******* investigation in October, saying they were treating Kyran as missing, presumed dead.

That same month

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but there was no sign of his body.

Kyran was originally reported missing alongside his mother, Dayla Durnin, in August 2024.

One of Kyran’s grandmothers claimed she had last seen them in her home in Drogheda and, at that time, she appealed for her daughter Dayla to contact her.

Dayla was later found alive in Great Britain without Kyran.

Gardaí investigating the schoolboy’s disappearance have made two arrests during the course of their inquiry so far.

A man and a woman were arrested two days apart in mid-December but they were both released without charge within a day of being detained.

The man, who was arrested on suspicion of Kyran’s *******, was found dead at his home in Drogheda just days after his release from custody.

He was named locally as 36-year-old Anthony Maguire.

Gardaí warn over ‘misinformed’ speculation

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Kyran lived with his family in Dundalk for a time but they later moved to Drogheda

Confirming the latest search at a “domestic residence” in Drogheda, gardaí said they were “aware of ongoing extensive public commentary” on their investigation.

They warned that most of the speculation, rumours and theories on what may have happened to Kyran was “inaccurate and misinformed”.

“Such ill-informed public commentary is not only disruptive to the Garda investigations but also adds to the trauma experienced by victims families,” they added.

At the scene

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A property in Drogheda, County Louth, is being searched as part of the investigation

Kevin Sharkey, BBC News NI Dublin Reporter

A Garda van and car are parked close to the house which is along a narrow residential street.

The area immediately around the house is cordoned off.

Gardaí are conducting their initial searches here out of public view.

It’s an old-style residential area with TV aerials on most of the rooftops and electrical and telephone wires criss-crossing the street.

While gardaí conduct their searches inside the house, local people are going about their normal daily business and mostly keeping their thoughts about this latest development to themselves.

Supposed move to Northern Ireland

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Gardaí are conducting their initial searches out of public view

Kyran had been a pupil at the national [primary] school near his home in Dundalk until the summer of 2022.

He did not return to class after the summer holidays and it is understood authorities were told he was moving to Northern Ireland and to a new school in Newry.

Tusla, the Irish state agency responsible for child ******** and protection, said it received no referrals or concern about Kyran’s attendance or educational ******** between 2022 and 2024.

In early December, two houses were searched in Drogheda. One of the searches involved the use of a cadaver dog.

The results of the searches were not made public.

The Garda Commissioner,

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on both sides of the border.

Timeline of Kyran’s disappearance

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Kyran is believed to have been last seen alive in the summer of 2022

2021-2022 – Kyran was a pupil at a national [primary] school near his home in Dundalk, but he did not return to the school after the 2022 summer holidays.

May 2024 – Kyran’s family moved out of their home in Emer Terrace in Dundalk, where they had been living for a number of years.

Unknown date in August 2024 – Tusla, the Irish state agency responsible for child protection, alerted gardaí about “a significant concern about Kyran”.

28 August 2024 – The approximate date of the last sighting of the boy and his mother in Drogheda, according to a missing person report made to gardaí.

30 August 2024 – Kyran and his 24-year-old mother Dayla Durnin were reported missing from their home in Drogheda.

4 September 2024 – Gardaí issued a public missing persons appeal, seeking help to find Dayla and Kyran.

16 October 2024 – Gardaí said they now believed that “Kyran is missing, presumed dead” and they confirmed they have begun a ******* inquiry.

22 October 2024 – Kyran’s former family home and garden in Emer Terrace, Dundalk, is searched by forensic investigators, as well as nearby open ground.

24 October 2024 – the Dundalk search ends, with police adding that the results of the search were not being released for operational purposes.

31 October 2024 – Tusla declines to publicly release its review of its interactions with Kyran’s family, adding information it held on him was lost in a cyber attack.

10 December 2024 – A woman was arrested by gardaí investigating Kyran’s disappearance and ******* but is released without charge the following day.

12 December 2024 – A man was arrested on suspicion of Kyran’s ******* but again was released without charge the next day. Two houses in Drogheda were searched.

17 December 2024 – The man who had been arrested and released – named locally as 36-year-old Anthony Maguire – is found dead at his home in Drogheda.

26 February 2024 – Gardaí began a forensic search at a “domestic residence” in Drogheda.

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