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GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the disappearance of a man in Monaghan 18 years ago have recovered a car from a lake in Fermanagh.
Michael ‘Tony’ Lynch (55) went missing from his home in Clones, Co Monaghan on 6 January 2002. His last known sighting was at Fermanagh Street, Clones, County Monaghan at around 6pm that day.
In January, on the 18th anniversary of his disappearance, investigating gardaí launched a renewed appeal for information, while a search of lakes and quarries in the Clones area were carried out in conjunction with Monaghan Civil Defence.
Yesterday, a search was carried out at Lough Erne in Fermanagh after locals alerted gardaí to what has been described as an ‘anomaly’ in the water.
The locals were aware of gardaí’s renewed appeal for information regarding the location of the car earlier this year and made contact with Clones Garda Station.
Shortly after 2pm yesterday, a joint-operation involving gardaí and the PSNI lead to divers carrying out an underwater search of the lake and discovered that a car was submerged.
The vehicle has been recovered for examination and is believed to be the Mitsubishi belonging to Lynch.
Inspector Graham Tolan of Monaghan Garda Station said, “An Garda Síochána will continue to investigate missing persons’ cases for as long as it takes. In this case, An Garda Síochána have been searching for Mr Lynch for 18 years.
“We are grateful to the members of the public who alerted us to this anomaly in the water. I’d like to remind the public that small pieces of information, no matter how insignificant they may seem, can often prove vital, as is the case today”.
“We will continue to work with Police in Lisnaskea who are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery. A family liaison officer attached to An Garda Síochana has been appointed and is liaising with Mr Lynch’s family.”
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If it’s one thing Iarnrod Eireann are good at, it’s cancelling services
@pkunzip doom2.zip: nonsense, while you’ll get people nagging on about rail services reduced on the hottest weekend in August, its more likely been planned months in advance based on annual August footfalls.
It would be too costly to cancel the works now because you have contractors who will still have to be paid, probably overtime for company staff and then the price of doing it all again
@pkunzip doom2.zip: They are upgrading the line or did you not read the article. That section of line is the oldest in the country and as DART+ is being rolled out there will be work needed across the entire commuter network.
So they have to close the line and they choose the slowest weekends to do so.
@Gary Kearney: did you read my comment?
But they were saying essential works are carried at night and this prevents from extending services to late at nights so that a better service could be provided to the public.
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