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Have you Information?

Date: 8/31/2006The Missing Persons Association have received a lot of phone calls and a lot of the numbers from the callers are being withheld. Some of the callers are pausing and not speaking. We would be foolish to disregard the possibilty that these callers are making an attempt to pass on information to us concerning...

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Missing Miles Cycle – Please Support

Date: 8/31/2006Missing in Ireland Support Service (MISS) is a voluntary Organisation which was established to provide support for families and friends of Missing Persons. One of their aims is to raise public awareness of the problem – this year close to 6,000 people will have been reported to the Gardai as Missing. Following the success...

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Missing persons book: Interviews sought to publicise cases

Date: 8/9/2006My 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...

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Matt Mullaney

Date: 8/3/2006Matt 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...

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Cracking Crime – Last in Series

Date: 7/23/2006The 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...

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Lost Contact- Raymond Shaw

Date: 7/1/2006A 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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Tom Brown Calls For Missing Persons Helpline

Date: 7/1/200615 St Columbanus PlaceMilltownDublin 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...

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Appeal for Matthew Carroll

Date: 6/21/2006RTE 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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RTE and Missing Persons

Date: 6/18/2006RTE 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...

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Garda Annual Report 2005

Date: 6/2/2006The 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 atwww.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:...

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