{"id":410202,"date":"2026-04-21T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410202\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:25:10","slug":"gardai-searching-for-missing-midlands-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410202\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed Searching For Missing Midlands Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 21 April 2026 10:24\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e7420cc53fe.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo Credit: Facebook\/An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Missing Persons<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The 42 year old is missing since Saturday.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are seeking assistance in finding a man missing in Westmeath.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>42-year-old James Gaffey, has been missing since 7:30am on Saturday in the Athlone area.<\/p>\n<p>He is described as being six foot three with a slim build, with red hair and a long red beard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James is reported to have access to a blue Volkswagen Passat with 06LK plates, and is known to regularly visit Summerhill, Co. Meath, Burgess Park, Co. Westmeath and Co. Offaly.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on James&#8217; whereabouts is asked to contact Athlone Garda Station, the Garda Confidential Line, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 21 April 2026 10:24 Photo Credit: Facebook\/An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Missing Persons The 42 year old is missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3279,319,72,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-410202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410202","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=410202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}