Brother of child missing since 1947 to address National Missing Persons Day event

James Malachy 'Jimmy' O’Neill's family kept the circumstances of his disappearance a secret due to 'fear of repercussions from a local garda'

Frank O'Neill (pictured) whose brother Jimmy is the longest missing child in Ireland. He will address the public for the first time since the annual National Missing Persons Day event began more than a decade ago. File photo: Patrick Browne

The only surviving brother of one of Ireland’s longest missing children will address this year’s annual National Missing Persons Day, as he seeks an official apology from gardaí over the disappearance nearly 80 years ago.

James Malachy “Jimmy” O’Neill went missing in December 1947, after he was wrongly accused of stealing a postal order from a local shipping company in Waterford.