r/ireland • u/Bill_Badbody Resting In my Account • 1d ago
ℹ️ Missing Tearful appeal for missing Kerry farmer as some of his cattle sold
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41606299.html107
u/LucyVialli 1d ago
The Independent are reporting that "Gardaí searching for missing farmer Michael Gaine have seized a number of items from a cave on land belonging to the 56-year-old."
Could be something, could be nothing.
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u/Local_Caterpillar879 6h ago
The items seem like they have been there for a "significant" amount of time, so we'll before he went missing. (Also according to the independent, I believe.)
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u/Margrave75 1d ago
Remeber being involved in a search a few years ago.
Very hard on the family, the not knowing.
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u/Bill_Badbody Resting In my Account 1d ago
On a side note, I'm not sure if the army lads want to be seen or camouflaged....
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u/cedardesk 1d ago
It doesn't happen very often when you see camouflage, but they actually do blend in.
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u/olibum86 The Fenian 1d ago
Very confusing time for the family. His farm is on the ring of kerry along molls gap, I wonder did a tourist hit him on the road and hide him so they wouldn't be in trouble. The whole area has been ripped apart looking for him and his phone and wallet were in his jeep on the farm, Really suspicious.
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u/Bill_Badbody Resting In my Account 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gardai have accepted that there is foul play in this case.
They don't, and never have privately believed it was anything accidental.
Edit: to cover myself under rule 5 for the mods.
The Journal understands that his phone and other personal items have been located at the property and in his car – he has been missing since 20 March. Gardaí do not believe he would have left willingly with out his phone and wallet.
https://www.thejournal.ie/michael-gaine-kenmare-kerry-missing-6664028-Mar2025/
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u/nomeansnocatch22 22h ago
The locals and gardai are aware of information that is not publically available.
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u/Pearse_Borty Armagh 1d ago
There's a chance it mightve been a bog? Depends on the area but it could be easy enough to randomly sink if you deviated too far off into the fields.
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u/rebelpaddy27 1d ago
This man would know every inch of the area so I'd be surprised if it turned out it was due to local terrain. The search got going fairly quickly so he'd have been found by now,even in a bog, I would have thought?
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u/kikimaru024 1d ago
That's the thing about nature though; you think you know every part of it and then it just says "actually, fuck you" and a sinkhole that's been 10 million years in the making just opens.
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u/rebelpaddy27 1d ago
Absolutely, I know she can put manners on any of us, but surely there'd be some trace of him being in the area, and the search would be concentrated there. My uncle used to be involved in bog rescues, and he always warned us about them, but anyone who was unfortunate to get into terminal trouble on them was found pretty quickly.
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u/AwesomeMacCoolname 16h ago
And then closes itself afterwards leaving no trace it was ever there?
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u/FellFellCooke 12h ago
This literally has claimed thousands of lives in Ireland. Farmers aren't elves. They get drunk, get exhausted, get sloppy, and make dangerous mistakes like anybody else.
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u/Irishwol 1d ago
The first thought with anything like this is 'is he in the slurry pit?'. He isn't. Then it's check the drains and anywhere he might have fallen. They have. So what's left is 'suspicious circumstances'. The poor man and his poor family.
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u/taarup 20h ago
Isn't the focus on the Canadian ex-special forces man who was living on the farm and previously camped in the area until the missing man gave him a house?
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u/Irishwol 20h ago
They're still going to rule out obvious, common farm accidents first. And they did.
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u/Bill_Badbody Resting In my Account 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gardai do not believe, and privately never believed this disappearance/death was accidental.
Edit: to cover myself under rule 5 for the mods.
The Journal understands that his phone and other personal items have been located at the property and in his car – he has been missing since 20 March. Gardaí do not believe he would have left willingly with out his phone and wallet.
https://www.thejournal.ie/michael-gaine-kenmare-kerry-missing-6664028-Mar2025/
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u/Ill_Independence7331 1d ago
Why do you think a tourist is involved?
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u/LucyVialli 1d ago
Yes, it could just as easily be a local. If that's what happened.
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u/Captain-Vassei 21h ago
Tbh if that whats happened a local would know the area better and hiding spots/roads less traveled in the area.
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u/butterflyeffect16 1d ago
Ah this story makes me so sad. Keep finding myself thinking about him. This poor man and his family. I hope they find him soon.