Missing 8yr Old Kyran Durnin - presumed dead *READ Mod Note Added to OP*

I'd hope they do.

Well exactly, this early on they would need to gather all information they have, then make an arrest. The evidence is the important part anyway. Arresting someone doesn't mean the arrested person will say anything.

The indo headline today is saying that his name appeared on a B&B guest list last June.

Without a body can they be charged for murder? At the least can they brought in for negligence?

We're obviously missing something. They're busy looking into Kyran's mother's boyfriend, probably the death of his ex 5 years ago to look at that from a different perspective, the granny and her long history whatever that may be. Where's the grandad? There's surely a reason why they haven't been arrested. There are so many different sides to it.

They must all have a seriously strong alibi. Very strange how the media have been handled though - like a massive search for a boy and his mother. She's found and he hasn't been and then they think he's been dead for two years and no reports as to what the mother is saying or why they're not arresting her. Why can't they release that information I wonder? It would reduce the gossiping.

Yes, that's pretty much the exact point I was making. Unless you're referring to the point I was making around what they're communicating to the public. For example if they're getting no where with the mother, say that, at least. Don't just say she was found, not arrested and they think the boy died two years ago. Did the mother sit there in silence? Is she saying she left the kid with the granny 2 years ago? I just think if they released some more of their findings some members of the public, particularly those more local might have more to offer. But like I say, they must have their reasons. They certainly know a lot more about looking into these things than me!

Making every little operational detail public could very well compromise the investigation and they're not going to do that just to satisfy the puerile nosiness of the general public.

Also, as LER said, there's often a large element of giving people enough rope to hang themselves with, and the drip-feed of information in investigations like this is often deliberately designed to panic those involved into doing just that.

It will all come out in the wash. None of us have a right to know all the details right now, much as some people seem to think they do.

Its an awfully sad situation, the poor little lad. It really makes me grieve for them whenever any child is endangered in any manner. And especially if their missing and presumed murdered, the public arguably have the right to want answers and justice. Though this one is going to take some time for the authorities to figure out exactly what happened, who, how, when and where because the guilty parties have had a two year head start to try and cover their tracks. Its frustrating but that shouldn't mean that it's okay for people to result to making up lies, repeating gossip or spreading poorly thought through assumptions.

Funded by the taxpayer; there is perhaps an argument to be had for the use of elements of torture to find out whatchappened

No, there isn't FFS. Quite apart from the moral issues, information obtained by torture is inadmissible as evidence in most jurisdictions, and information from torture is unreliable.

I said elements; LA Confidential was a cracking movie

Pair of horrible monsters.

Poor little child. Rip. Rest easy.

This could be a very long drawn out investigation if Gardai don’t obtain the information they need to find this boy.
We’ve seen just months ago how the discovery eventually of a woman’s body who was reported as “missing” also , hidden in a house in cork (case ongoing) took an awful lot of investigation and years of patience before an arrest and charge took place - this case may well be similar in that without evidence of a death or indeed a killing that arrests and prosecutions won’t be any way in the near future