{"id":97437,"date":"2025-10-22T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/97437\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:21:07","slug":"heartache-as-body-found-in-search-for-missing-letterkenny-teacher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/97437\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartache as body found in search for missing Letterkenny teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search for Derry man Seamus Quinn has been stood down following the discovery of a body.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Quinn, a much-loved teacher at Loreto Letterkenny, had been missing from his home since Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>His family had been supported by police in Northern Ireland and garda\u00ed in Donegal during the widespread search.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"332\" data-end=\"439\">His daughter Caitl\u00edn shared the heartbreaking news on behalf of the family this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"593\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cSadly, the search has now been called off. Our wonderful husband and daddy has been found,\u201d Caitl\u00edn wrote online, adding that the family is \u201ctotally heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"593\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Ms Quinn also shared the family\u2019s thanks to those who helped by sharing posts, messages and supporting the search.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"593\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A garda spokesperson said: \u201cFollowing the discovery of a body, the missing person appeal for Seamus Quinn (63) who was reported missing from Derry since the 21st October 2025, has been stood down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heartache as body found in search for missing Letterkenny teacher was last modified:  October 22nd, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The search for Derry man Seamus Quinn has been stood down following the discovery of a body. Mr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-97437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97437","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=97437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}