After the disappearance of Kyran Durnin, in July this year, a Children Missing in Education (CME) team was set up to help find children who are missing from school.

Details of the child’s case are being reported for the first time after Mr Justice Barniville directed the easing of stringent reporting restrictions in the proceedings.

Excavators are being used to dig in a field in Donabate, north Dublin.

A report into the School Complete Programme has found higher rates of non-attendance and more school avoidance.

Gardaí fear the Co Louth boy, who would now be eight years old, may have died in 2022

The party member was suspended by Sinn Fein in 2023 and the incident was referred to the Police Service of Northern Ireland and social services.