{"id":466160,"date":"2026-05-25T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466160\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:29:09","slug":"woman-arrested-over-disappearance-of-kyran-durnin-6-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466160\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested over disappearance of Kyran Durnin (6) \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garda\u00ed investigating the disappearance and murder of missing boy Kyran Durnin<\/a> have arrested a woman in her 50s.<\/p>\n

He was reported missing from his home in Drogheda, Co Louth, in August 2024.<\/p>\n

The woman is the third person to be held during the investigation into Kyran\u2019s presumed death, and a search is being carried out at a home in Drogheda.<\/p>\n

The last confirmed sighting of Kyran, then aged six, was in May 2022 when his mother reported him ill with Covid-19. He never finished the year in St Nicholas\u2019 Monastery National School on Philip Street in Dundalk.<\/p>\n

However, staff there had been told he was planning to go to school in Northern Ireland the following year, meaning when he did not return in September it did not arouse suspicion.<\/p>\n

The last known images of him were taken in June 2022, around the time that garda\u00ed believe he was killed and that his remains were disposed of to conceal what had happened.<\/p>\n

The arrested woman is being detained at a Garda station in the Eastern Region under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.<\/p>\n

Kyran was reported missing along with his mother Dayla Durnin (24) by his grandmother Rhonda Byrne Tyson in August 2024.<\/p>\n

Byrne Tyson said that Dayla and her three children had stayed with her in her home in Hand Street, Drogheda, but had gone the following morning. Dayla was subsequently located in the UK but Kyran was not found.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, a man and a woman were arrested for questioning on suspicion of Kyran\u2019s murder but were released without charge. <\/p>\n

The Irish Times reported late last year that the Garda was preparing for a third arrest in the investigation. A person with crucial information about what happened to the child and about his life in the period before he vanished was said to be of interest to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n

Sources said garda\u00ed continue to believe that Kyran is dead and the whereabouts of his body are known to individuals who have not revealed that information.<\/p>\n

A review into the case has been done by the National Review Panel, which investigates serious incidents including the deaths of children known to the child protection system.<\/p>\n

It will not be published following on the advice of the Attorney General amid concerns it could \u201cprejudice any potential or future prosecutions\u201d<\/a>, Minister for Children Norma Foley said in December.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed said investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigating the disappearance and murder of missing boy Kyran Durnin have arrested a woman in her 50s.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,45811,43],"class_list":["post-466160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kyran-durnin","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}