Irish police have begun searching the former family home of eight-year-old Kyran Durnin, who has been missing for two months and is believed to be dead. The young schoolboy ’s disappearance was reported to police on 30 August, along with his mother who has since been located.

When Kyran was officially reported missing from his home in Drogheda, Co Louth, at the end of August, gardaí opened an investigation. However, that missing persons inquiry, for the boy and his mother Dayla Durnin (24), was stood down last week.

The case of Kyran Durnin has "utterly horrified" Taoiseach Simon Harris, as the murder investigation continues in Dundalk.

The Dundalk house was Kyran Durnin's family home until May 2024, though Gardaí say the current tenants are not connected to the boy's disappearance.

Here is what we know about the case of eight-year-old Kyran Durnin whose disappearance earlier this year is being treated by gardaí as murder.

The tenants in a home where Gardaí are set to search for the body of Kyran Durnin are 'not connected in any way' to the case.

Kyran Durnin is presumed dead as gardaí confirm they have located his mother amid a search of a house and garden in Dundalk, Co Louth

Gardaí (Irish police) are to search a house and surrounding grounds in County Louth as they investigate the disappearance of an eight-year-old boy. Kyran Durnin was reported missing from his home in Drogheda in August.

Kyran was reported missing from his home on 30 August but gardaí believe the child vanished some months before that.