{"id":25718,"date":"2025-04-16T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25718\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:59:09","slug":"appeal-over-missing-mayo-man-last-seen-in-northern-ireland-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25718\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal over missing Mayo man last seen in Northern Ireland \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The family and friends of a missing 38-year-old man have issued an urgent appeal for help in locating him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">George Brennan, from Co Mayo, was last seen on Wednesday April 2 in Ballycastle, Co Antrim and has not been heard from since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The last known sighting of Mr Brennan was on CCTV in the Spar shop on Moyle Road in Ballycastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was seen wearing a black zip-up top, dark jeans, runners and was carrying a blue hiking backpack.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/has-one-of-northern-irelands-top-hotels-lost-its-5-star-rating-WDS4HN3NLBGNJCE4EPM47DS4PQ\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Has one of Northern Ireland&#x2019;s top hotels lost its 5-Star rating?\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744837149_60_NYHIA2BUBRLMRLF23AFLXK2HPA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/this-is-the-dangerous-rapist-that-police-didnt-want-you-to-see-NBIBS23HSVGOTFQ4NAT4RKOVTY\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"This is the dangerous rapist that police didn&#x2019;t want you to see\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744837149_250_K4H5B76CGRGNXHS6WPTD6632ZI.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mr Brennan is 6\u20192, 100kg, with brown hair and blue eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is believed that he may have travelled onwards from Ballycastle, by foot, hitchhiking or public transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is an avid sea swimmer and hiker and there is concern he could have run into trouble doing these activities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"George Brennan was last seen in Ballycastle on April 2\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/63ASDZ6E7RORVCU44OGY4JSCI4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"612\"\/>George Brennan was last seen in Ballycastle on April 2 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are assisting An Garda Siochana and have issued an appeal for anyone with information to contact the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His family and friends said they are deeply concerned for his wellbeing and added that his disappearance is completely out of character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Speaking on behalf of the family, a spokesperson said: \u201cWe are heartbroken and desperate for any news. George is deeply loved, and we just want to know that he is safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe urge anyone who may have seen him, spoken with him, or has any information \u2014 no matter how small \u2014 to come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The family is asking members of the public across the island of Ireland to share George\u2019s photo and appeal widely on social media to help raise awareness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the PSNI by calling 101, quoting reference number 831 of 28\/03\/2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For those outside Northern Ireland, information can also be shared with Gardai or Crimestoppers (1800 25 00 25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family and friends of a missing 38-year-old man have issued an urgent appeal for help in locating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[15686,15687,15458,1144,13136,16,7913,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-25718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-ballycastle","9":"tag-george-brennan","10":"tag-irish","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-republic-of-ireland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-ulster","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114349655215650424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}