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

I'd guess she's not in the clear yet.

The grandmother is just as bad, she knows something but intentionally lied to mislead An Garda Síochána. I hope she gets jailed as well as the mother.

You'd assume the classic and a file is being prepared for the DPP should follow.

The file started at the beginning of this case.

It's a strange one, they have no doubt the boy is deceased but seem to be a bit off yet piecing it together.

The Times reporting they have not ruled out accidental death.

It's extremely common for suspects of serious crime to be released without charge while the Gardai continue to build their case.

It wouldn't be extremely common at all. For them to her arrest her again new evidence would have to go in front of a Judge to sanction it.

Also I'm sure now she is free to leave the state again.

10.—(1) Where a person arrested on suspicion of having committed an offence is detained pursuant to section 4 and is released without any charge having been made against him, he shall not—

(a) be arrested again for the same offence, or

(b) be arrested for any other offence of which, at the time of the first arrest, the member of the Garda Síochána by whom he was arrested suspected him or ought reasonably to have suspected him,

except on the authority of a justice of the District Court who is satisfied on information supplied on oath by a member of the Garda Síochána not below the rank of superintendent that further information has come to the knowledge of the Garda Síochána since the person's release as to his suspected participation in the offence for which his arrest is sought. A person arrested under that authority shall be dealt with pursuant to section 4 .

She can be arrested if the DPP go forward. That is a different procedure, made aware of the charges and brought to court for a bail hearing if it is sought.

If she is not in the state this would be more complicated.

If they were detained for questioning originally, they can be rearrested for the purpose of charge. And it does happen - Richard Satchwell is just one notable example. And I think pretty much all of the men who were eventually convicted of Tom Dooley's murder in Kerry were initially released without charge.

My point is, I suspect the Gardai know what they're doing with this case, and people shouldn't just assume that "released without charge" = "she got away with it" and break out their pitchforks accordingly.

Ok, that's the letter of the law then.

(b) is an interesting one.

An arrest and two properties currently being searched.

So, hopefully more progress.

Anyone know what part of Drogheda.

The maternal grandmother lives on Hand St

So basically the Gardai don't have a bulls notion what happened. Whether it was accidental or murder.

Well done lads.

Droghedalife online paper has posted the address on Facebook - it's in the Marley's Lane area.

It's not CSI Drogheda.

It won't be wrapped up in an hour plus commercials.

Could well be the DPP never take a murder case.

How on earth do you know what's in the file to be sent to the DPP? There could be guards in that investigation who know well who has done it.

Such is our legal system, that on serious matters, a file is sent to the DPP. Generally, the guard in that file will make a recommendation, and it could be "charge X with murder" With a charge as serious as murder, and the implications a conviction for same can have on a person's life, unless a guard walked into a murder scene with blood all over the walls and the suspect still there, it'd be highly unusual to just charge them on a whim. Incompetent in fact.

For a case where Tusla staff reported someone being alive two days before, when in fact they could have been murdered on any day in the 720 odd days preceding it, yes, a genuine well done lads from me.

There's a huge fault here, not by the people who were handed nothing to go on. Anything could have happened that boy in theory, and all the people who had connections to him. Or people who said they saw him, when in fact they didn't. So nailing down times, several possibilities- murder, neglect, accident and subsequent cover up, even where he died, establishing it was in this country etc.

There'll be another headline in time that someone has been charged for this. Processes of the legal system should not be so easily presumed to be nothing has been discovered.

The perpetrator is to blame firstly, then the family. Then whoever was so incompetent as to lose track of him for up to two years, yet state it was only two days, possibly to cover their own arse.

The last people to blame are the ones who something was finally disclosed to after such a f up. Who's job it is then to row back years and compile a file on it. You think the person or people doing that don't want to see someone held responsible and convicted possibly more than us all?

The poster you quoted needs one of these for Christmas