{"id":261738,"date":"2026-01-01T14:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/261738\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:12:18","slug":"police-seek-new-information-on-20th-anniversary-of-belfast-mans-disappearance-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/261738\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek new information on 20th anniversary of Belfast man\u2019s disappearance \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police have renewed calls for information on the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of a man from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/belfast\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/belfast\">Belfast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Martin Kelly was last seen on New Year\u2019s Day in 2006. He was in his early 20s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">PSNI Det Insp Stephen Harvey said Mr Kelly\u2019s disappearance \u201chas had a profound impact on his family\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cMartin, who worked as a plumber and a part-time barman in the Priory Inn at Holywood, worked on New Year\u2019s Eve 2005 and then went on to two house parties with friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cOn New Year\u2019s Day, he and his friends went to Pat\u2019s Bar in Garmoyle Street to watch a football match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe friends left and Martin remained in the bar talking to other customers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe left at about 7.10pm and hasn\u2019t been seen since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cMartin, who is about 6ft 1in tall and of slim build with short dark hair, was wearing a black \u2018Guinness\u2019 T-shirt and blue jeans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cPolice investigating Martin\u2019s disappearance carried out searches on land and on the water and deployed the diving team and air support team in these searches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe have also undertaken extensive inquiries but despite conducting a wide range of interviews and reviewing all available CCTV relating to the incident, Martin has not been located.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe remain committed and determined to discovering what happened to Martin and detectives will continue to follow up all new lines of inquiry and any new information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with knowledge of Mr Kelly\u2019s disappearance is asked to contact the PSNI. &#8211; PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have renewed calls for information on the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of a man from Belfast.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[663,9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,952,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-261738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115820255355604681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}