The Irish national, named in local media as Naoise Conron, had been in a car with two other individuals when it was stopped at a police checkpoint in Spain

40 years after Philip Cairns went missing, we still cling to the memory of the boy who never came home

The mysterious disappearance of 13-year-old Philip Cairns in a Dublin suburb on October 23, 1986 challenged something many had taken for granted: the belief that children were safe in familiar surroundings