Manage Preferences<\/a><\/p>\nOver the past four decades since Philip’s disappearance, garda\u00ed have followed more than 1,600 lines of inquiry.<\/p>\n
The investigation team, which continues to engage with the Cairns family, said it has received and continues to receive contact and information from the public on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
Officers said the disappearance has been the subject of significant media attention in recent weeks and months, which has brought the case back to the forefront of popular discussion and has raised some new pieces of information.<\/p>\n
A garda spokesman said: “An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na would appeal to anyone with any information on the disappearance of Philip Cairns, no matter how insignificant they think it may be, to not assume that An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na has that information, or that it is not relevant. Please contact the garda investigation team.<\/p>\n
“There may be individuals who as a result of the recent media attention are now in a position to speak with the garda investigation team; have information in relation to Philip’s disappearance or his schoolbag, and for whatever reason have not come forward. Who were young at the time of Philip’s disappearance and not in a position to provide An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na with information, but may now be able to do so.<\/p>\n
“With the passage of time and changing circumstances, these people may now be able to come forward and in a position to assist An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and provide answers to Philip’s family.<\/p>\n
“An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na wants to reassure anyone who comes forward that they will be treated sensitively and discreetly by investigating Garda\u00ed. Even the smallest piece of information, which may seem insignificant, may assist the investigation.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Rathfarnham Garda Station on 01 666 6500, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are examining new pieces of information about the disappearance of a teenage schoolboy who went missing 40…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-662899","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\/662899","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=662899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}