Distraught father appeals for help in tracing adult son missing for five weeks

John Coakley (40) left his house on Brown Avenue in Carlow city round 11.30pm on Friday April 14 and known as into the house of his father, John Coakley Sr, on Kevin Barry Avenue. He left there shortly after 2am biking on a blue bicycle with service baggage on every handlebar.

He then cycled to close by St Mary’s Park earlier than leaving the bicycle there and strolling in the direction of Carlow city centre.

His final identified actions have been captured on CCTV footage when he was seen talking to some folks on the city’s Potato Market after which strolling onto Tullow Avenue earlier than returning briefly to the Potato Market and talking to a taxi driver.

He’s then seen strolling in the direction of Carlow procuring centre and eventually in the direction of the Hanover bus park in Carlow city round 2.55am. Gardai have since dominated out that he might have taken a bus from the station.

He then vanished.

“We by no means misplaced contact for any time,” Mr Coakley Sr instructed RTE’s CrimeCall programme this night.

“Every part about this, it’s any mum or dad’s worst nightmare,” he stated.

“Somebody needed to have seen one thing,” added his lifelong pal Kieran Kehoe. “You don’t simply vanish into skinny air. We simply want a path the place John went.”

Mr Coakley Sr, stated John’s sudden disappearance was completely out of character.

“He’s my eldest baby and he has a coronary heart of gold,” he stated.

“It’s unbelievable. He lives for his canine and birds and fish, that’s the kind of factor he loves and that’s all he’s ever cherished all his life from the time he was a baby.”

Mr Kehoe stated John “had associates in every single place he went. He’s simply the kind of particular person that you just’re drawn to and somebody would at all times know the place John is. He at all times touched base with someone however that is simply completely out of character,” he stated of his sudden disappearance.

Each Mr Kehoe and Mr Coakley Sr, have been conducting each day searches of the realm together with gardai, the military, the Civil Defence and the garda sub-aqua unit which has searched native rivers however discovered no hint of him.

“I’m positive there may be someone on the market who has seen or has a little bit little bit of footage of him… only one piece of footage to tell us he was seen right here final,” Mr Coakley Sr stated.

“We simply need a solution, it’s not like John to go for this size of time.”

Mr Kehoe is urging anybody with dash-cam or cell phone footage who was in Carlow city within the early hours of April 15 to return and overview their footage in case it sheds some gentle on John’s actions.

“It takes two minutes.”

Lastly, Mr Coakley Sr, appealed to his son if he was watching the programme to make contact with somebody.

“I need you house,” he stated.

Insp David Buckley from Carlow garda station urged anybody with data to contact them.

John is described as being roughly 6’2” in top and of slim construct. He was final seen carrying a black sleeveless jacket and denims.

Anybody with data on John’s whereabouts is requested to contact Gardaí in Carlow on 059 913 6620, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.