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The father of missing Dubliner John Redmond, last seen one month ago today, is refusing to give up hope his son will be found.
Family and friends have been left devastated since John (33), from Drimnagh, went missing on February 21 and say they are “completely mystified” by his disappearance.
The father-of-one left his home at around 8am that morning and was captured on CCTV at 11.20am in a shop at Sutton Cross in north Dublin. His rucksack, mobile phone, wallet and passport were later found in Howth.
John’s father, Paddy Redmond, told Independent.ie he was refusing to give up hope his son would be found and appealed for any information on his whereabouts.
“It’s very hard when you’re lying in bed at night thinking about it,” he said. “This is completely out of character for him and I’m baffled by it.
“He has been missing for one month today and I don’t think it has fully hit me yet – I’m all over the place at the moment.”
John, who works in TV production in the Oireachtas, is described as six foot, of medium build, with brown hair, blue eyes and a beard. When last seen, he was wearing blue jeans, black work boots and a navy jacket.
Despite a garda appeal for information and the case featuring on RTÉ’s Crimecall, there has been no significant progress to date. A garda spokesperson said the appeal remained active.
Mr Redmond last saw John, the eldest of his two sons, two days before he went missing.
“I was sitting beside him on the sofa and nothing seemed wrong,” he said. “His daughter is only eight and she knows the police are looking for her daddy, but thinks he just went for a walk and got lost.
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Close friend Tarik Dwyer-Yilmaz described John as “incredibly outgoing, friendly and hardworking”.
“I last spoke to him in January and he was in brilliant form,” he said. “We were just talking about normal stuff, like his new year’s resolutions and what type of Christmas he’d had – there was no indication anything was wrong.
“John is passionate about making short films and is a very sociable, happy-go-lucky guy. It’s so out of character for him to go missing.
“Even the location is bizarre. Howth is a pretty popular place and it’s strange that nobody has seen anything.”
‘Nothing seemed wrong’ – Father of missing Dubliner John Redmond refusing to give up hope
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