Broadcaster appeals for information to solve the mystery of his missing cousin

Philip Cairns was 13 when he disappeared. 

Broadcaster and writer Gareth O’Callaghan has issued an appeal for information in a bid to solve the mystery of his missing cousin, Philip Cairns, who disappeared without trace in 1986 at the age of thirteen.

Philip Cairns remains one of the most high-profile missing person cases in Ireland. The teenager vanished on the afternoon of October 23, 1986. He was 13.