Ireland Ireland- James Malachy O’Neill, 16, worker @ Clyde Shipping Company, disappeared from home, Waterford, Dec., '47, possibly stowed on ship to Canada.

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Joleen MurphyDecember 04, 2024

Ireland's longest missing person among those remembered on Missing Persons Day | Beat102103.com

A Waterford man who is Ireland's longest missing person is being remembered today on the 12th annual Missing Persons Day.

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''He was last seen back in December 1947.
He worked for a shipping company in the area, before vanishing without trace''.
''Jimmy O'Neill was born on 26th of November 1931 and would now be 93 years old.''

''At the time he was working for the Clyde Shipping Company which operated between Waterford and Liverpool.
But on one of his days off, he disappeared and it is thought that he stowed away on a ship.''
02 Apr, 2024

Fresh hope for family of one of Ireland's oldest missing persons

James Malachy O’Neill vanished from the family’s former home on Leamy St in Waterford in 1947, when he was just 16

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''The brother of one of the country’s oldest missing people has said he hopes a new lead from Canada may finally lead to a breakthrough in the 77-year-old mystery.''

''Gardaí are following up on new records Frank O'Neill received on a genealogy website regarding the case of his brother James Malachy O’Neill, who vanished from the family’s former home on Leamy St in Waterford in 1947, when he was just 16.''

Mr O’Neill told the Irish Examiner this week that he received an airline record to Canada for a James O’Neill, as well as a ship record with the same name, that had similar ages to his brother.
He also has been notified about a James O’Neill who died in a nursing home in Canada, who had no known relatives and was around the same age as James, also known as Jimmy.''

'The records given to Mr O’Neill show a Malachy O’Neill went from Liverpool to Montreal, Canada, in 1960 and 1956.'

 

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2021 rbbm. heartbreaking..

Brother of Ireland's longest missing man says he has never given up hope

A man who was just five years of age when his brother went missing 74 years ago today has said he will never give up hope in finding out what happened to him.

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''His younger brother Frank says he never came home from work.
"He had a half day and never came home, and apparently my mother had the dinner and all ready for him."

''Frank said previously that his brother may have made his way to Liverpool and from there travelled on to New York, but even though an 'SOS' was placed in local newspapers at the time there was never a result.
Frank said his brother’s disappearance devastated his family.
"It broke my parent's heart - both of them - it killed them in the long run,” he said
"It shortened their lives, because even on my mother's deathbed there was one lady said to me - called me that morning - a lady that was in the ward with my mother.
"And she said to me 'Who's Jimmy?', I said 'That's my brother who went missing' and she said 'That's who your mother was crying for all night'".

 

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02 Dec, 2025 Alison O'Reilly

Brother of child missing since 1947 to address National Missing Persons Day event

James Malachy 'Jimmy' O’Neill's family kept the circumstances of his disappearance a secret due to 'fear of repercussions from a local garda'

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''James Malachy 'Jimmy' O’Neill's family kept the circumstances of his disappearance a secret due to 'fear of repercussions from a local garda'

Frank O'Neill (pictured) whose brother Jimmy is the longest missing child in Ireland. He will address the public for the first time since the annual National Missing Persons Day event began more than a decade ago. File photo: Patrick Browne
''Last year, Jimmy's brother Frank broke his silence to reveal the truth behind his brother’s disappearance, saying one detective in Waterford who is now deceased “tormented” his family over the missing postal order for years after Jimmy vanished.

On Wednesday, National Missing Persons Day will take place in the Royal Kilmainham Hospital in Dublin, where Mr O’Neill will address the public for the first time since the event began more than a decade ago.''

“I know the true suffering and hardship that comes when a person goes missing. My own family was destroyed, and my parents died of a broken heart.''

Jimmy O'Neill letter to be forensically examined 77 years after his disappearance

His only surviving sibling, Frank O’Neill, told the Irish Examiner that a detective in Waterford, now deceased, had falsely accused his brother of stealing a postal order and 'ran him out of the country'

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'Forensic Science Ireland will undertake the task of trying to retrieve Jimmy’s DNA from a letter he wrote to his mother Bridget after he ran away.'

''Mr O’Neill has also found a marriage cert in Liverpool that appears to match the details of his missing brother. “A relative told us Jimmy got married in Liverpool, and had a child, I’m following up on that.”