'Very strange and very sad': Boy, 8, feared dead may not have been seen for two years

Kyran Durnin was reported missing by his family on August 30, and has not been seen for many months, and, possibly, for more than two years. Picture: Garda/PA Wire

Gardaí have described as “very strange and very sad” the circumstances around a missing eight-year-old boy, now believed to have been killed.

Detectives in Drogheda, Co Louth, have established that Kyran Durnin, who was reported missing by his family on August 30, has not been seen for many months, and, possibly, for more than two years.