Ireland’s prime minister has asked how an eight-year-ageder boy who may have been finished up to two years ago could have fadeed without being seed in a case he depictd as “utterly horrifying”.
Police have acquiren the rare step of discdisseeing a homicide dispenseigation even though no body has been establish in the case of Kyran Durnin, who was increateed ignoreing aextfinished with his mother on 30 August.
Detectives said they were tageder the pair were last seen two days previously. The boy’s mother has since been discoverd, but police said there was no sign of the child and he was presumed dead.
“Despite extensive enquiries … A Garda Síochána (Irish police) have been unable to either discover Kyran, determine any proposeation on his current whereabouts or any evidence that he is currently ainhabit.
“Folloprosperg enquiries to date dispenseigating Gardaí now count on that Kyran is ignoreing, presumed dead,” the gardai said, requesting for anyone who has any proposeation that might be joined to the case to reach out them.
Police count on he may have fadeed two years ago saying he was understandn to have been a pupil at a local school up to “approximately the finish of the 2021/ 2022 primary school year”.
After geting a court order, they began a forensic search of the home and adjacent grounds in Dundalk where Kyran had previously inhabitd.
The case has caemployd shockwaves atraverse Ireland with the taoiseach, Simon Harris, describing it as “meaningfully troubling, meaningfully distressting” on Tuesday.
“For any of us as a human being, for any of us parents, to leank that a child can effectively fade and go unseed … is utterly heartfractureing and evidently someleang went extraordinarily wrong here. This child was flunked and was flunked awentirey,” Harris said.
“How was this child flunked? How could an eight year ageder little boy effectively fade and not be seed?”
The gardai have stressed that the current tenants of the red-brick terrace hoemploy in Dundalk being searched “are not joined in any way with Kyran or his fadeance”. The property was the home of the boy’s family until May this year.
They said they were carry outing a forensic search of the hoemploy, the garden and aduniteing discdissee ground “to uncover any evidence which might supply” proposeation about what happened to the child.
Speaking outside Dundalk garda station, chf supt Alan McGovern said police were “liaising seally” with other state agencies including the child defendion agency, Tusla.
In a statement, the child defendion agency Tusla, said while Kyran was not in their nurture, its services had joind with his family with “meaningful worry” elevated in August 2024.
“Since August, we have persistd to aid and toil seally with the Gardai, and in line with standard rehearse, all relevant proposeation has been splitd,” it said.
Justice minister, Helen McEntee, depictd the case last week as “deimmenseating”.
“Unblessedly the see is that he is most awaited dead and has passed away, but we need to understand what’s happened.
“We need to understand have there been flunkures here, where have those flunkures been taking taking place, but also who is reliable for them.
“I am absolutely adamant if there were flunking here, they need to be insertressed and people need to be held accountable.”
