09/08/2006
My name is Peter McGuire. I have almost completed writing an oral history of missing persons in Ireland for a research master's degree in UCD.
I'm now in the process of changing this into book form. As part of the book, I am looking to interview the families or friends of missing persons and lost contacts. In particular, I would like to publicise some of the cases that occured prior to the 1990s. Many such cases are included in the Lost Contacts and Missing Persons pages of this website. However, I would also be happy to interview any families of people who disappeared or lost contact in more recent years.
These cases would then be included in the book, which contains information on older missing persons cases and records the extent to which missing persons was a problem affecting society from the 1800s to today.
Please be assured that anybody interviewed will be able to discuss any or all aspects of their loved one's case with me; I am not seeking any particular information or to restrict what can be said. Interviews would be conducted at a time suitable to you, either face to face or over the phone.
If you would like to have your loved one's case included, please contact me at petemcguire@gmail.com or write to me at Peter McGuire, 24 Glencairn Drive, Leopardstown, Dublin 18.
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04/08/2006
A 24-year-old Co Tyrone farm labourer has been told he must spend the rest of his natural life in prison for the murder of retired librarian Attracta Harron.
Mrs Harron, who was 65 and from Strabane, was abducted and murdered by Trevor Hamilton as she made her way home from mass in Donegal in December 2003. She was missing from December 2003 to April 2004.
It is the first time in the judicial history of Northern Ireland that a prisoner has been sentenced to spend the remainder of his natural life behind bars.
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03/08/2006
Matt Mullaney, a US citizen, has been missing from Florence Italy since February 2003. There have been some sightings reported of him being in Ireland. His parents are desperately anxious to make contact with him or to know that he is OK.
They also have set up a website with detailed info at Matt Mullaney.com. If you know of his whereabouts please get in touch.
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23/07/2006
The last in the series of "Cracking Crime" on RTE 1 TV will be broadcast next Tuesday at 9.30 P.M (25 July). The current series has been focusing on the cases of missing persons.
The last programme will feature the case of missing Limerick Man, Aengus (Gussie) Shanahan who is missing since 11 February 2000. Gussie is my first cousin and it was as a result of his disappearance that I set up this website over six years ago.
Aquinas Duffy
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01/07/2006
A lady in England, who is currently ill, is desperately trying to make contact with her brother, Raymond Shaw who has been living in the Waterford area for 30 years and who is originally from Scotland. See details.
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01/07/2006
15 St Columbanus Place
Milltown
Dublin 14
My name is Tom Brown. My sister Ellen Coss has been missing for six years now.
I am asking anyone in ireland, North and South, whoever has had a loved one
missing, to write to me. Just write down your home phone number and I will contact you.
My aim is to get the Missing Persons' Helpline back immediately as it
has been closed for over a year.
The previous Missing Persons' Helpline was a non-runner. This time we
demand that it be:
1) Professionally staffed.
2) Adequately funded.
3) Properly run with full accountability.
4) Widely advertised
5) On-line support, counselling and advice for relatives and friends
of Ireland's missing people of all nationalities, North and South.
Thank You.
Tom Brown
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21/06/2006
RTE Crime Call programme last night issued a renewed appeal in the case of missing Limerick Man, Matthew Carroll who is missing 8 years. If you have any information, please come forward and end the nightmare for his family.
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18/06/2006
RTE are currently featuring a number of documentary programmes on missing persons in the Cracking Crime series. The programmes will be broadcast every Tuesday night at 9.30 PM on RTE 1 TV until July 18.
Also on RTE 1 TV, Crimecall on Tuesday 20 June at 10.15 PM will also feature a reconstruction of the last known movements of missing Limerick Man, Matthew Carroll who is missing since 1998.
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02/06/2006
The Garda Annual Report for 2005 was published on the 9th May 2006. The section on missing persons is on page 79 of the Report and is available for download at www.garda.ie .
For the year 2005, there were 5,997 people reported missing to An Garda Siochana. That figure is broken down into Category A: 3,277, Category B: 1559 and Category C: 1,161. By year's end 75 people remained untraced. 61% of all missing persons' reports involved people under 18 years of age.
For an explanation of the categories and to compare the figures with previous years see the "About Missing.WS" page
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20/05/2006
An article appeared in the Enniscorthy Guardian on the 28 April 2006 about two bodies that were found a number of years ago and who have not yet been identified despite every effort being made to try and identify them.
One of the bodies was washed up on Courtown beach in Wexford on the 23 October 1999. The unidentified man was white, aged between 25 and 40, well built, around 6 ft 2' in height, and possibly had dark hair. An elasticated band of material around his waist was the only clothing that led to a clue that the man may have been of Eastern European origin. He is now buried at St. Michael's Cemetery in Gorey
The other body was a woman. The woman, aged between 25 to 40 was found at Ballinamona Beach on December 12, 1995. The only clue found was that her jeans were made in Belgium and that she had a key to a volkswagan car. She is now buried at She was eventually buried in Crosstown Cemetery in Wexford.
If you have any information on who these people are, plaese contact the Gardai in Gorey Co Wexford.
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