{"id":466230,"date":"2026-05-25T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466230\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:42:14","slug":"woman-arrested-in-relation-to-kyran-durnin-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466230\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested in relation to Kyran Durnin investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman has been arrested as part of the investigation into the disappearance and murder of six-year-old Kyran Durnin.<\/p>\n

The woman, who is in her 50s, was arrested this morning.<\/p>\n

She is being held at a garda station in the eastern region.<\/p>\n

She is the third person to be arrested in connection with the investigation.<\/p>\n

A search under warrant is also being carried out at a home in Drogheda, Co Louth.<\/p>\n

Kyran was first reported missing to garda\u00ed in Drogheda in August 2024.<\/p>\n

They were initially told he had not been seen for a few days, however it subsequently emerged that by that time, Kyran had been missing for almost two years.<\/p>\n

His school had been informed in the summer of 2022 that he would not be back for the following term.<\/p>\n

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Garda\u00ed in Drogheda began a murder investigation and searched a house in Drogheda.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, a woman who had been living in the UK was arrested in connection with the investigation. She was later released without charge.<\/p>\n

A 36-year-old man who knew the woman, Anthony Maguire, was arrested on suspicion of Kyran’s murder and garda\u00ed also searched his home at Beechwood Drive in Drogheda.<\/p>\n

Maguire was suspected of having been involved in the provision of false information to Tusla in relation to Kyran’s disappearance.<\/p>\n

Maguire was released without charge was found dead at his home six days later in what gardai are treating as “a personal tragedy”.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested as part of the investigation into the disappearance and murder of six-year-old Kyran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-466230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466230","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=466230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}