{"id":355172,"date":"2026-03-19T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355172\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:32:10","slug":"missing-person-case-stood-down-after-discovery-of-body-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355172\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing person case stood down after discovery of body \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A missing person investigation into a 38-year-old man from Newry has been stood down after the discovery of a body on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

38-year-old Shane McEvoy was last seen last Friday night<\/a> near a Circle K petrol station in Ravensdale, Co Louth along the border.<\/p>\n

Mr McEvoy, who is understood to be a serving medic in the Irish Defence Forces, had been spotted on CCTC earlier in the evening in a bar in Newry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A significant search and rescue operation had been taking place in recent days as the family of Mr McEvoy became increasingly concerned for his whereabouts.<\/p>\n

\"Shane<\/a>\"Man<\/a><\/p>\n

A statement from Garda\u00ed on Thursday confirmed that the appeal had now been stood down following the discovery of a body.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the discovery of a body, the missing person appeal in respect of Shane McEvoy (38), who was reported missing from Dundalk, Co. Louth since Friday 13th March 2026 has been stood down,\u201d a spokesperson for the force said.<\/p>\n

No further details have been released by the Garda\u00ed, while the PSNI has also been contacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A missing person investigation into a 38-year-old man from Newry has been stood down after the discovery of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43065,55,42,9689,63446,43,3404,161310,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-355172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-co-down","tag-garda","tag-headlines","tag-louth","tag-newry","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland","tag-south-down","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}