The heartbroken parents of a man missing from Limerick City for ten years have re-appealed for information about the whereabouts of their son, after an anonymous person passed on details about the disappearance to the family in recent days.

Bob and Nancy Shanahan, from the Ennis Road, set up an independent mobile telephone number in February this year to mark the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of their son, Aengus Gussie Shanahan, and were given new hope of tracing him when a person called the hotline to offer some information last week.

“We would appeal to that person to contact the mobile telephone number again, please. If only so we can get to bury our son and find some sort of closure,” Bob Shanahan said.

The caller to the mobile number-which is totally independent of the Gardai-said that Gussie had been involved in a skirmish that had gone too far and that his body had been dumped somewhere in Limerick. ”The caller gave us information about an area where the body of Gussies might be. We’ve been searching quietly for the past number of days but we haven’t found anything yet. It would be great if the caller would contact the telephone number again and give us a more specific area to search,” a hopeful Bob Shanahan added.

Gussie’s parents, siblings and wider family have been in a ‘living hell’ since the young Limerick man went missing on February 11, 200. Despite suffering a stress-related stroke two years after her son went missing, Nancy Shanahan told about how she has been affected by the never-ending ordeal.

Aengus Shanahan

“My life was never the same. I miss him everyday. So, please if anyone knows anything please tell the newspaper or the radio, tell somebody or contact us. Somebody knows something and if one person knows something, then three people know.

So, please tell us and bring us out of this agony. I’d like to see him before I die. That’s all, thank you very much.”

“We just want to bury Gussie, we don’t want people going to jail or whatever. We just want to find him.

The telephone number, which is completely confidential, is 085-2092119.