Ann Murphy: The State is playing pass the parcel with missing children

How can two children vanish in this country without a trace and without being missed for several years, asks Ann Murphy

A Garda search under way in Donabate, Dublin, amid an investigation into the circumstances of the disappearance and current whereabouts of a 7-year-old boy. Picture: Eamonn Farrell

Pass the parcel is no doubt a game that Kyran Durnin and the little boy missing in Dublin would have been familiar with — if they had lived long enough.

Instead, they are both presumed dead, with a murder investigation under way into Kyran’s case and a search ongoing in Donabate for the Dublin boy.