{"id":24086,"date":"2025-02-28T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/search-for-six-year-old-at-drogheda-house-completed\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:34:21","slug":"search-for-six-year-old-at-drogheda-house-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/search-for-six-year-old-at-drogheda-house-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for six-year-old at Drogheda house completed"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Kyran is believed to have been last seen alive in the summer of 2022<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A search at a house in Drogheda, County Louth, as part of the investigation into the murder of a six-year-old boy who disappeared more than two years ago, has come to an end.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed (Irish police) said the results of the search are not being released for operational purposes.<\/p>\n

Kyran Durnin was reported missing at the end of last summer but garda\u00ed believe he may have been killed more than two years earlier.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed commenced a murder investigation in October 2024, saying they were treating Kyran as missing, presumed dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Officers from the Garda Technical Bureau undertook an examination in Drogheda on Wednesday and Thursday<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

No referrals or concern<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Kyran lived with his family in Dundalk for a time but they later moved to Drogheda<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Kyran had been a pupil at the national [primary] school near his home in Dundalk until the summer of 2022.<\/p>\n

He did not return to class after the summer holidays and it is understood authorities were told he was moving to Northern Ireland and to a new school in Newry.<\/p>\n

Tusla, the Irish state agency responsible for child welfare and protection, said it received no referrals or concern about Kyran’s attendance or educational welfare between 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n

In December, two houses were searched in Drogheda. One of the searches involved the use of a cadaver dog.<\/p>\n

The results of the searches were not made public.<\/p>\n

The Garda Commissioner Drew Harris previously said he had never seen a case like this in his 40-year career<\/a> in policing on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Kyran Durnin: Timeline of disappearance<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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