‘We want him home, want him to be at home with us’

Majella and Mark Holohan said they were baffled by their eldest son’s disappearance.

The ditching of his new silver BMX bike, a Christmas gift he adored, has exacerbated their fears of an accident or possibly an abduction.

“We want him home tonight, want him to be at home with us,” said his mother, as day three of a search came to a close. “We don’t care what’s after happening, whoever has him, please let him go and send him home to me tonight.”