NEWS AND EVENTS
Womens mini Marathon 2023
This years Vhi Womens Mini Marathon takes place on Sunday June 4th - are you taking part?
Why not jog or walk and support the National Missing Persons Helpline?
Get involved by starting a fundraising project to help us in our work.
Please contact us on 1800 442 552 or email helpline@nmph.ie for more information.
Collaboration with Grafton Barbers
We have recently concluded a partnership with Grafton Barbers which provides us with a new means of informing the public in the hope that it will jog someone’s memory or conscience and encourage them to come forward with information. Grafton Barbers have information screens in all of their branches, they are located in the waiting area and also street facing for passers-by. We have been provided with the facility to display images and details of four Missing Persons which will change at monthly intervals.
If you would like to see your missing loved one included in this initiative, please get in touch.
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MAY 2021 - Database of unidentified human remains should be set up for families of missing people, coroner says
Currently there is no official record of how many unidentified bodies or remains are stored in hospital mortuaries or laying in graves.
A database of unidentified human remains should be established to help return them to their loved ones, a coroner says.
Galway West Coroner Dr Ciaran MacLoughlin said this database should be shared across all Garda stations and coroners offices in the Republic.
Currently there is no official record of how many unidentified bodies or remains are stored in hospital mortuaries or laying in graves.
Dr MacLoughlin was speaking at the inquest into the death of Denis Walsh Jnr, whose family were informed last February that his partial body had in fact been discovered 25 years ago, held in a hospital mortuary for 18 years and eventually buried in a communal grave in Co Galway.
Mr Walsh went missing from his home in Caherdavin, Limerick, on March 9, 1996.
Four weeks later on April 7, and unknown to his family, the 23-year old’s remains, including his torso, partial skull and hair, arms and forearms, were discovered washed up on Inis Mor, off Galway Bay.