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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
By Grinne N. Aodha

Search for missing boy prompts review of closed child agency cases

Minister Norma Foley at Government Buildings (Niall Carson/PA) - (PA Wire)

An Irish State agency for children is to undertake “wellbeing checks” on cases closed during the pandemic, a Cabinet Minister has said, following scrutiny over the body’s previous interactions with a child who has been missing for years and is now feared dead.

Gardai said they are investigating the disappearance and whereabouts of the boy, who would be seven years old if still alive, and last lived in an apartment in Donabate, north Dublin.

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