How can a child in Ireland just disappear?
4 September - 23 minsEvery year, thousands of children in Ireland are reported missing. Most are found, but a troubling number remain unaccounted for. In today’s Newstalk Daily, Ciara Doherty addresses the reality behind the country’s missing children - from homes, streets, and state care systems - and examines why some cases go unnoticed for years.
The podcast explores the heartbreaking cases of a boy from Donabate, missing for a number of years, and Kyran Durnin from Drogheda, whose disappearance prompted a murder investigation and whose body has never been found. Fergus Finlay, former head of Barnardos, joins the conversation to explain the systemic challenges in protecting vulnerable children, the delays i...
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