{"id":488951,"date":"2026-06-08T12:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488951\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:27:15","slug":"appeal-as-family-concerned-for-wellbeing-of-waterford-man-missing-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488951\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal as family concerned for wellbeing of Waterford man missing five days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ayres thought to be driving a Peugeot van<\/p>\n<p>12:53, 07 Jun 2026Updated 12:53, 07 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_mark1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Mark Ayres\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Mark Ayres<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Garda\u00ed are seeking the public&#8217;s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of Mark Ayres, who was last seen on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Mark was last seen at Upper Yellow Road, Waterford City on Tuesday, June 2. He was believed to be driving a 171-DL registered white Peugeot Partner van heading in the direction of Longford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Mark is described as being approximately 6 foot in height with a stocky build, black\/grey hair and blue eyes. He usually wears blue jeans and a black jumper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It&#8217;s thought that Mark may be in the Wexford, Waterford or Longford areas. Garda\u00ed and Mark\u2019s family say they are are concerned for his wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Anyone with information regarding Mark Ayres\u2019 whereabouts is asked to contact Wexford Garda Station on 053 916 5200, 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\">Sign up <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=df8d6f09-ae48-4c50-92e5-a495d5d24ef0&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">here for our daily newsletter <\/a>and get breaking news and top stories from Cork Beo direct to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Ayres thought to be driving a Peugeot van 12:53, 07 Jun 2026Updated 12:53, 07 Jun 2026 Mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,7782,61,60],"class_list":["post-488951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488951","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=488951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}