Boy missing with mum for seven weeks ‘was murdered’, police fear

A murder investigation has been launched seven weeks after an eight-year-old boy went missing.

Kyran Durnin went missing from Co Louth in Ireland on August 28 alongside his mum Dayla, aged 24.

Gardai now say Kyran is presumed to be dead.

Dayla and Kyran were last seen on the night of August 28 when her mum went to bed and left them sleeping on the sofa.

When she work up the next morning, they were gone.

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