Kyran Durnin's Tusla review will not be made public

Kyran Durnin was reported missing in August

Tusla, the Irish state agency responsible for child welfare and protection, said it will not make an internal review of its interactions with Kyran Durnin's family public.

Kyran was reported missing at the end of August but last week gardaí (Irish police) said the boy is now "presumed dead" and they launched a murder investigation.

Detectives believe the child may have been killed more than two years ago, when he was aged six.

Searches took place earlier this week, at a private property at Emer Terrace in Dundalk, County Louth, where the family lived until May 2024, as well as adjoining land.

RTÉ reported that a spokesperson for Tusla said: "In accordance with standard practice in sensitive situations, and in the context of the live investigation by An Garda Síochána and the highly sensitive nature of the personal information involved, the review cannot be published at this time."

Tusla previously said that in August, it alerted gardaí to a significant concern about Kyran.

The agency also said that while Kyran was not in its care, it had engaged with him and his family. Last week, it opened an internal review into its interactions with Kyran and his family.

Information held by the agency on the missing boy was lost in a cyber attack.

Tusla said the system affected by the attack "was not the system of record for case notes" and was not relevant to the internal review by the agency into its interactions with Kyran's family.

But the Irish Independent, who first reported the data loss, quoted sources as saying that it was a "matter of concern" for gardaí.

Timeline of Kyran's disappearance

• 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

• 24 October 2024 - searches of the house and nearby grounds end, with gardaí adding that the results of the search were not being released for operational purposes