Woman arrested in connection with Kyran Durnin murder

Police in Ireland have arrested a woman in her 50s in connection with the disappearance and murder of six year old Kyran Durnin, a breakthrough in a case that has spanned nearly four years. The arrest was made on Monday, 25 May 2026, as officers conducted a search under warrant at a domestic residence in Drogheda, County Louth. The woman is being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda station in the eastern region.

Kyran was last seen alive in June 2022, when he was six years old. He was reported missing from his home in Drogheda in late August 2024. At that time, authorities were initially told he had not been seen for a few days, but it later emerged that he had been missing for nearly two years. His school had been informed in the summer of 2022 that he would not return for the following term. Gardaí upgraded the case to a murder investigation in October 2025, stating that Kyran was presumed dead and that it was suspected he may have died in 2022. The arrest comes less than two weeks after what would have been Kyran’s 10th birthday.

The woman is the third person to be arrested in connection with the investigation. In December 2024, a woman who...