Naas family gather to attend prayer service marking 15 years since Trevor Deely disappeared

A Co Kildare town will gather in a prayer service  this Friday night to mark 15 years since a 22-year-old local man disappeared without trace.

The prayer mass at Ballycane Parish Church this Friday is a special service for the family of Trevor Deely, Naas, last seen at 4.10am on December 8, 2000, walking down Haddington Road, close to his apartment, in Dublin after leaving an office Christmas party.

December 8, 2000, was a wild stormy night when Trevor went to Copper Face Jacks in Harcourt Street at 8p.m, later going to the Hilton Hotel in Charlemont Place at 9p.m.

He later went to Buck Whaley's night club in Leeson Street, leaving there at 3.30a.m.

He went back to his office where he checked his email and picked up a blue ACC golf umbrella, leaving the office at 4a.m.

He rang his best friend, Glen, leaving a message saying he had had a great night and would talk to him later.

CCTV footage picked up Trevor walking close to Baggot Bridge holding his umbrella at 4.14a.m. No trace of him has emerged since.

Today is National Missing Persons day, a initiative that began three years and is now held annually at Farmleigh House.

An average of  one person is reported missing every hour of every day in Ireland.

Garda statistics reveal that 9,179 people were reported missing from Ireland in 2014, with 17 of those still unaccounted for.

Anyone with information about Trevor Deely or another missing person can email the missing-persons bureau at [email protected] or contact any Garda station.