Tragic case of Louth schoolboy Kyran Durnin 'shows how children can disappear within Irish system'

'No one should be able to hide a child’s whereabouts,' says solicitor and child-protection expert, but insufficient liaison between areas allows people to hide from the authorities more easily than they should

Kyran Durnin, aged 8, is missing, presumed dead. Picture: Garda Síochána

Smiling broadly in Spiderman jumpers on his mother’s social media pages or playing on a swing, those happy family images now jar horribly with the current murder investigation into Kyran Durnin's presumed death.

The eight-year-old, who was reported missing in August, is now believed to have been killed and may have disappeared more than two years ago.