The name of Ireland's longest missing person has been engraved on his family's headstone - after 75 years.
Jimmy O'Neill disappeared from Waterford City when he was only 16 years old, back in December 1947.
He worked for a shipping company in the area, before vanishing without trace.
His younger brother, Frank, says he recently put his name on his family's headstone in Ballygunner, Co. Waterford.
Speaking about his brother, Frank says: " He was gone at this stage 75 years, if you have a thing in your system, a grief, you'll do anything to eliminate that grief."
Having worked for the Clyde shipping company, Jimmy would have celebrated his 96th birthday last November.
Frank told the Irish Examiner: "I do remember one woman saying to my mother, 'Jimmy is grand.' My mother said 'would you take a card to him?' and the woman said 'no I can't, I'd get the other woman in trouble."
To this day, Frank believes that Jimmy stowed away on a ship and that someone helped him to do so.
In engraving Jimmy's name on a headstone in Ballygunner, it is Frank's hope that people will know Jimmy was never forgotten here in Waterford, that he was searched for in hope for more than 70 years.
Frank says: "If Jimmy had any family, they might come back here and see that I never forgot him."
Despite several garda investigations, appeals, and DNA testing, Jimmy was never seen again since he vanished from Leamy Street in 1947.
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