About Missing.ie

This website was created in May 2000, following the disappearance of my first cousin, Aengus Shanahan from Limerick in February 2000. At that time there was no other Irish website, except for the Garda Siochana Website, that allowed people to post appeals about missing loved ones. The Garda Siochana now have an excellent website with a section on missing persons and there are also a number of other websites which offer this facility including ‘Cork City Missing Persons Search and Recovery’ . There is also a National Missing Persons Helpline which is a local call from anywhere in the Republic of Ireland and the number is 1890-442 552. Their website, www.missingpersons.ie, carries appeals for people missing from or in Ireland, whose cases have been reported to the Gardai.

Please spend some time reviewing the Missing Persons Page and perhaps you could be the person who will help locate a missing person. There is also a ‘lost contact’ section to the website for people searching for loved ones who have lost contact but who are not missing persons. There are a number of reasons why a person would go missing, sometimes known only to him or her. One phone call from them would be enough to put their families’ minds at ease. Where a person has been abducted and taken against their will, there are always people who have information which can lead to the recovery of a body or to information leading the authorities to the place of their captivity. Any information that you can give can help.

In February 2018, the domain name and administration of the website was given to Cork City Missing Persons Search and Recovery 

(Fr) Aquinas T Duffy

www.missing.ie

How Many Go Missing?

“Category A” (High Risk) covers the reports which require immediate action on the assumption that the missing person is at serious risk, such as child abduction or possible suicide threats.”

“Category B” (Medium Risk) refers to persons who may have disappeared of their own volition and are assumed not to be at any immediate risk such as persons who have a reason to leave or have left a note stating that they do not intend to return.

“Category C” (Low Risk) includes reports where there is no apparent threat of danger to the missing person or the public such as a person over 18 who has decided to start a new life.

The statistics from the Garda Annual Reports are below: