The family of a young Kildare man who has been missing for four years have issued a fresh appeal for any information on their son's whereabouts.
Mr Trevor Deely was last seen as he made his way home from a Christmas office party in the early hours of December 8th, 2000. He was filmed on CCTV as he crossed Baggot Street Bridge, in Dublin at 4.14 a.m.
There were no later sightings of the 22-year-old bank worker and his family have had no news of him in the intervening four years.
Speaking on the eve of the fourth anniversary of his son's disappearance, Mr Michael Deely told The Irish Times he is convinced his son is still alive.
"The one good thing about it all is that nothing sinister has shown up, in all of that time nothing bad has turned up. We have no information that anything happened to him so as far as we are concerned Trevor is OK, he's alive and may just be working quite normally. I believe and the family believes firmly that he is alive."
Mr Deely left Buck Whaley's night club on Leeson Street at 3.25 a.m., walking to his office at Bank of Ireland Asset Management on Leeson Street. He collected a navy umbrella with an ACC logo there and left at around 4 a.m.
He made a number of calls from his mobile phone to a friend in Naas, where he is originally from, as he walked down Wilton Terrace towards Baggot Street Bridge.
It is likely he was walking home to the flat he shared on Serpentine Avenue in Sandymount. Mr Deely is 6 feet, of slim build with short red hair and blue eyes.
A number of people filmed on the CCTV at Baggot Street Bridge have since been traced by gardaí and reported seeing nothing unusual at the time.
The family is now appealing to anybody who may have seen Trevor on the night of the 7th/8th of December 2000 to come forward.
"It was a very wet and windy night and it was the last day of a taxi strike. The gardaí have told us that it can sometimes take just a shred of information to make a breakthrough," Mr Deely said.
Anybody with information is asked to contact Pearse Street Garda station on (01) 6669000.
