Ireland’s Most Famous Cold Case Files
TREVOR DEELY
THE 22-year-old vanished after a Christmas night out with colleagues on December 8, 2000.
Originally from Naas, he was spotted on CCTV footage in the early hours of the morning on Baggot Street Bridge in Dublin 4. Mr Deely, who worked for Bank of Ireland, went back to his office to collect an umbrella where he spoke with a colleague before heading home.
In April of 2017, technological advances had allowed gardaí to get a clearer picture of another man present in CCTV footage outside Mr Deely workplace, with whom the missing man appears to talk.
Gardaí believe this man is the same one who is later seen following Mr Deely as heads down Haddington Road, but he has never come forward.
In August 2017, a dig began at Chapelizod after a tip-off but nothing was uncovered.
DEIRDRE JACOB
MS Jacob was just 18-years-old when she vanished on her walk home from Newbridge, Co. Kildare during an afternoon in July 1998. The young woman, who was studying to become a primary school teacher in London, was home for the holidays and had visited the bank and her grandmother’s sweet shop before vanishing.
Gardaí upgraded Ms Jacob’s case from missing person to murder investigation in August this year after receiving new information. Her body has never been found.
FIONA PENDER
FIONA Pender was seven months’ pregnant when she disappeared from Tullamore in Co. Offaly in 1996.
The 25-yearold hairdresser has not been seen since and her mother Josephine, who never stopped searching for her, died in September 2017.
PHILIP CAIRNS
THE 13-year-old vanished after coming home for lunch from secondary school Coláiste Éanna in Rathfarnham on October 23, 1986. He was last seen as he made his way back for his afternoon classes and was never seen again. A week later, his school bag was recovered in a laneway near his home.
Gardaí have received a number of tip-offs in the decades following his disappearance, but he has never been found. More than 400 alleged sightings were reported after he vanished.