Calls for public inquiry into disappearance of Kyran Durnin

Eva Osborne

Calls are being made for a public inquiry into the disappearance of Kyran Durnin.

The schoolboy, who would have celebrated his ninth birthday last month, was last seen in public three years ago.

Gardaí investigating his murder continue to appeal for information.

Speaking on Newstalk, chief executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance, Tanya Ward, said there are far too many unanswered questions.

"I want to know what happened in the spectrum on his life. What service did Kyran Durnin have interaction with early on in his life and, at some point, could some intervention have prevented whatever happened to him?

"And we don't know what happened to him, so I do think we need some sort of review, at the very least, to assess what went wrong."

During the course of the murder investigation, gardaí carried out searches of properties and adjoining land in Co Louth.

Gardaí believe Kyran Durnin might have died aged six after it emerged he had not been seen since May 2022 when he was a pupil at a primary school in Dundalk.