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EPISODE · Sep 4, 2025 · 32 MIN

Ireland's missing children: Donabate & Kyran Durnin

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Gardaí continue to search a site in Donabate, north county Dublin, for a missing child, who is presumed dead.Since the authorities last contact with the family - five years ago - the child disappeared. He would have been aged two at the time.The case is disturbingly similar to that of Kyran Durnin, and gardaí have renewed an appeal for information on him a year on.The last known images of Kyran were taken in June 2022, when he was six-years-old.He was reported missing from his home in Drogheda, County Louth, in the Republic of Ireland in August 2024.Despite extensive and ongoing enquiries carried out by Irish police, they have been unable to locate Kyran or determine what has happened to him.How can two boys disappear for years, and it go unnoticed?Tara Mills and Declan Harvey speak to Eimer McAuley, a correspondent for TheJournal.ie about the latest in both cases.Get in touch: [email protected]

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