New appeal one year on from Kyran Durnin disappearance

Kyran Durnin was reported missing in August 2024

Gardaí (Irish police) have made an appeal for information about the disappearance and murder of Kyran Durnin as it approaches one year since he was first reported as missing.

The last known images of Kyran were taken in June 2022, when he was six-years-old.

He was reported missing from his home in Drogheda, County Louth, in the Republic of Ireland in August 2024.

Despite extensive and ongoing enquiries carried out by gardaí, they have been unable to locate Kyran or determine what has happened to him.

The Durnin family's previous contacts with Irish child protection services are now the subject of an independent national review

Gardaí said there have been in excess of 570 separate investigative actions taken, two arrests of a man and a woman on suspicion of murder, three domestic residences and adjoining lands searched, and more than 29,500 hours of CCTV reviewed.

They said they are "aware of the extensive public commentary on this investigation including speculation, rumours and theories on what may have happened to Kyran".

The Durnin family's previous contacts with Irish child protection services are now the subject of an independent national review.

Tusla, the Irish state agency responsible for child welfare and protection, has also said it is carrying out an internal review of its interactions with Kyran's family.

Timeline of what has been confirmed so far

• 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 murder inquiry

• 21 October 2024 - Acting under a search warrant, gardaí take possession of the Durnins' former family home in Emer Terrace, Dundalk

• 22 October 2024 - a forensic examination of the house, garden and nearby open ground began