'She lied to me about Kyran or police have it wrong'

An audio signaling which raises cardinal questions successful the probe into the suspected execution of Kyran Durnin is being broadcast for the archetypal clip by BBC Spotlight.

Kyran was reported missing astatine the extremity of August but successful October An Garda Síochána (Irish police) announced the lad was presumed dead.

Gardaí said helium had not been seen for 2 years - contempt being known to kid services.

The signaling contains an interrogation with the boy's grandma and was made successful the play betwixt the missing person's entreaty and the execution investigation.

The signaling was made during an interrogation with a writer successful which Rhonda Tyson appealed to Kyran's parent Dayla, who was besides missing astatine the time, to marque interaction with her.

Dayla was recovered live successful Great Britain without Kyran.

Some of the accusation provided by Ms Tyson successful the interrogation contradicts Garda statements surrounding the past clip Kyran was seen.

Gardaí are present successful possession of the portion arsenic portion of the investigation.

Drogheda Life writer Andrew Spearman said helium had a "nodding acquaintanceship" with Ms Tyson anterior to their interview.

When Gardaí launched a execution probe weeks aft the signaling was made, Mr Spearman said helium was "gobsmacked".

"I was shocked to the core. How could that be?

"I don't often enactment awake astatine nighttime reasoning astir things, but I did with this because, you know, either she was lying done her teeth to me, oregon the guards are wrong."

Spotlight approached Ms Tyson for a remark but she declined to respond.

Kyran was a pupil astatine the nationalist [primary] schoolhouse adjacent his location successful Dundalk successful 2022, past aged six.

It's understood authorities were told helium would beryllium moving to Northern Ireland and attending a caller schoolhouse successful Newry.

Spotlight has discovered a cardinal witnesser who undermines the assertion that Kyran had been surviving successful Newry astatine the clip helium is believed to person disappeared.

School officials successful Dundalk, wherever Kyran lived with his mother, were reportedly told astatine the extremity of the 2022 summertime word that helium would beryllium attending schoolhouse implicit the borderline – but that assertion was not confirmed.

Stormont Education Minister Paul Givan has told the BBC that officials from his section volition beryllium gathering their Dublin counterparts successful the coming weeks to sermon however accusation "is shared arsenic efficaciously and efficiently arsenic possible".

"The lawsuit of Kyran Durnin is profoundly upsetting and arsenic a genitor I americium horrified to deliberation that a kid tin vanish and that it could spell unnoticed," Mr Givan said.

"Kyran's lawsuit is taxable to An Garda Síochána probe and we request to recognize what went incorrect successful this situation."

An interior reappraisal of Tusla's interactions with Kyran's household has been carried out, but has not been made public, successful consultation with gardaí.

Tusla told Spotlight that though Kyran was not successful its care, important efforts were made by unit to supply further enactment to the household successful 2021/22.

It besides said no referral was received from Kyran's schoolhouse successful narration to concerns astir his payment oregon attendance.

The Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, antecedently said helium had never seen a lawsuit similar this successful his 40-year vocation successful policing connected some sides of the border.

Ireland's Special Rapporteur connected Child Protection, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, is calling for a afloat nationalist enquiry to found however Kyran went missing for 2 years without anyone noticing.

"The lawsuit is utterly horrifying. This is simply a kid who's wholly vanished disconnected the look of the planet," she told Spotlight.

Ms Gallagher said this lawsuit should beryllium a "watershed moment" for kid extortion successful Ireland.

"[It] seems to maine determination has got to beryllium a robust autarkic inquiry, a nationalist inquiry, which looks astatine the broader non-criminal issues and looks astatine however connected world this tin person happened, and fundamentally looks astatine what needs to alteration successful Ireland's kid extortion systems to guarantee that this ne'er happens again."

She added: "It seems to maine that though we don't yet cognize the detail, we bash cognize that this was a kid who was fundamentally precise severely failed, and it seems apt was failed by aggregate agencies and perchance by aggregate individuals."