The name of Ireland’s longest missing person has been engraved on a headstone in County Waterford.
Jimmy O’Neill was just 16 years old when he went missing just over 75 years ago.
He lived on Leamy Street in Waterford city and worked for a shipping company, which operated between Waterford and Liverpool.
An undated photo of Jimmy O'Neill. Picture by: Facebook/Help Find- James Malachy O'NeillOn December 15th, 1947, he disappeared without trace and has not been heard from since.
His younger brother, Frank, was only five-years-old at the time.
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He told Newstalk he has now added his brother’s name to his family's headstone in Ballygunner, Co. Waterford.
He said his brother may have got the boat to Liverpool; however, nobody knows for sure.
“He worked in a shipping company in Waterford and he had a half day on a Monday and never came home,” he said.
“So, my gut feeling at that time and my own little internal investigations was that Jimmy went missing; I was assuming that he went maybe on the Tuesday.
“This was of a Monday and I feel that Jimmy had to have help to stow away on the ship.”
Jimmy O'Neill
If Jimmy was alive now, he would be 91, while Frank is 79.
He is still urging anyone with any information on what happened to Jimmy to come forward.
Well over 800 people reported missing in Ireland have never been found.
