{"id":442410,"date":"2026-05-10T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442410\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:27:10","slug":"missing-donegal-man-may-have-travelled-to-cork-gardai-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442410\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Donegal man &#8216;may have travelled to Cork,&#8217; Garda\u00ed say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family are concerned for the wellbeing of Finbarr Hopkins, 48<\/p>\n<p>15:26, 10 May 2026Updated 20:21, 10 May 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_finbarr.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Finbarr Hopkins, 48\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Finbarr Hopkins, 48<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Update: Finbarr Hopkins has been located safe and well, Garda\u00ed have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It&#8217;s thought that a Donegal man who has not bee seen since Friday may have travelled 500km to Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Finbarr Hopkins, 48, was reported missing from Buncrana, Co. Donegal since Saturday, May 8, having last been seen the day before. Finbarr is described as being approximately 6 foot in height, of slim build, with grey hair and beard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">When last seen, he was wearing a black jacket with a grey hood, grey shoes, grey tracksuit trousers with a large black gym bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Garda\u00ed and Finbarr\u2019s family are concerned for his wellbeing. Anyone with information on Finbarr&#8217;s whereabouts is asked to contact Buncrana Garda Station on (074) 932 0540, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A Garda spokesperson said: &#8220;Finbarr was last seen on Friday 8th May 2026. It is believed he may have travelled to Cork.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family are concerned for the wellbeing of Finbarr Hopkins, 48 15:26, 10 May 2026Updated 20:21, 10 May 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-442410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442410","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=442410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}