{"id":266388,"date":"2026-01-04T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266388\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:30:13","slug":"gardai-issue-fresh-appeal-over-woman-missing-for-32-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266388\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed issue fresh appeal over woman missing for 32 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed have issued a renewed appeal for information on a woman who went missing 32-years-ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Imelda Keenan, originally from Mountmellick in Co Laois, was last seen in Waterford city on Monday, January 3, 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She had moved to the city with her boyfriend and was 22 at the time of her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On the day she went missing, she left her apartment at 1.30pm and walked down William Street and on to Lombard Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The last confirmed sighting of Ms Keenan was at the corner of the Tower Hotel and Lombard Street, where she was seen crossing the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ms Keenan was reported missing by her brother Edward the following day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4918430_2_articleinline_Imelda_20Keenan_20Computer_20Gen_20Photo.jpg\" alt=\"A computer-generated age-progressed image of Imelda Keenan, released by An Garda Siochana.\" title=\"A computer-generated age-progressed image of Imelda Keenan, released by An Garda Siochana.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>A computer-generated age-progressed image of Imelda Keenan, released by An Garda Siochana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In an appeal for information, Garda Superintendent Gavin Hegarty said: \u201cImelda was known for her quiet demeanour, her love of music and her strong family ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cDespite extensive investigations spanning 32 years, the silence surrounding her fate remains unbroken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe continue to urge anyone with information or the ability to assist our investigation to come forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gardai have released a computer generated \u201cage progressed\u201d image of Ms Keenan, who would now be aged 54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have issued a renewed appeal for information on a woman who went missing 32-years-ago. Imelda Keenan, originally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,7935,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-266388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-missing","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115835425528943078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266388","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=266388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}