“It was reported to the authorities, who said that the matter was looked into thoroughly, that there was nobody living in the house and that from investigations made locally, it was certain he had returned to the UK and that was where the family should continue to search”
Is it too much to expect that the Gardaí should be able to find a person reported missing in their own home? I know they got bad info from the locals about the UK but come on like…
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>And they also revealed that while the Ireland of 25 years ago was not like the Ireland of today with mobile phones and messaging apps, Mr O’Sullivan kept in regular contact with all of his family, including his late brother, Denis, before they lost touch with him.
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>“He spoke about returning to the UK again, but nothing was set in stone. However, then after a while, communication with Tim ceased. His family made every effort to locate him, they visited the house in Mallow several times but had no method of access without breaking and entering.
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>“It was reported to the authorities, who said that the matter was looked into thoroughly, that there was nobody living in the house and that from investigations made locally, it was certain he had returned to the UK and that was where the family should continue to search,” they said.
Same ol’ gardaí.
So desperately sad. I think if it was my sibling I’d have broken into the house.
Who boarded up the house & did they not look inside at all?
Genuine question did the place not smell of decomposition, that’s usually how remains are found. I guess that would only apply sort of around the time the man died
Imagine going to visit the house and not realising all this time he was there all along….. grim reading but happy to hear the family have closure
RIP
Absolute piss-take from the Gardai.
I have so much trouble to understand this story. I mean if someone disappears surely the first thing you do is checking the house right? This house is even boarded up so how? Really sad story
Simple truth is that they should’ve entered the house and checked, they would have found the poor lads corpse years ago and this would never have happened, that the windows were boarded up yet noone bothered to ENTER the place is baffling to say the least.
That’s some joke, poor family
Did the poor man board up the house himself and then die inside? How can the house be boarded up but nobody finds a body?
The whole lot of them need kicking, honestly, what a shower of morons. The entire street that knew he lived there and his stupid family.
Some fuckin lazy Guards.
Incompetent-Ireland at it’s best here.
There’s fault here with the family. If they went there themselves and couldn’t access, if they were concerned enough they would have pressured Gardai to conduct a proper welfare check.
What’s worse is they said they had regular contact prior, so when that stopped it wasn’t a red flag??
they said they “had been haunted by Mr O’Sullivan’s disappearance from his home on Beecher Street in Mallow sometime in the early 2000s but had never ceased trying to find him.” – Except check his house?
Imagine you die and it takes a stranger to find you dead in your house 20 years later and your family are all like 😮
Poor fella.
This whole story is wild, like how did it come to boarding up the house without anyone noticing? And how does the CPO work if they can’t locate the owner? Why did nobody ever access the house!
For shame – not least for the family, but the community and nation at large. We have no respect for the elderly like they do in other cultures. It’s hard to get my head around this.
They did not have any communication with him for 22 years, all while they knew exactly where he lived? I bet if had money this wouldn’t have happened.
And none of this “we don’t know the situation” nonsense. Regardless what the previous circumstances or relationships, there’s no excuse whatsoever for this.
Who boarded up the windows? Condemned the building? What of the unpaid bills, gas supply, post even?
For shame – not least on the family, but the community at large. We have no respect for the elderly like they do in other cultures.
They did not have any communication with him for 22 years, all while they knew exactly where he lived? I bet if had money this wouldn’t have happened.
And none of this “we don’t know the situation” nonsense. Regardless what the previous circumstances or relationships, there’s no excuse whatsoever for this.
Who boarded up the windows? Condemned the building? What of the unpaid bills, gas supply, post even? Where did the family think he was, into his 70s and 80s?
They didn’t think about him because they didn’t care, and they feel bad only because the inevitable happened. I mean come on – 22 years?! Shame, shame, shame.