Up to 80 calls were received by gardai on the case of missing Co Kildare man, Mr Trevor Deely (22), following Tuesday night's edition of Crimeline.
The RTE television programme featured a reconstruction of Mr Deely's last known movements before he went missing on the night of December 8th/9th last. Gardai have been unable to make any progress on the case so far.
Garda Seamus Duffy, of Harcourt Terrace Garda station in Dublin, said all calls would be followed up. "I am writing them up now," he said yesterday, "and they will be worked on by detectives at the incident room here after."
Mr Deely was last sighted when captured on a closed circuit television camera on Baggot Street bridge at 4.14 a.m. on December 9th, as he walked home from his office Christmas party.
Garda water, dog and air units have all been involved in the search along the coastline and throughout Dublin. The case has also given rise to one of the biggest postering campaigns in Dublin. Mr Deely left Buck Whaley's night club on Leeson Street at 3.25 a.m., walking to his office at Bank of Ireland Asset Management on Lees on Street. He collected a navy umbrella with an ACC logo there and left at about 4 a.m.
He made a number of calls from his mobile phone to a friend in Naas as he walked down Wilton Terrace towards Baggot Street Bridge. It is likely he was walking home to the flat he shared on Serpen tine Avenue in Sandymount. Mr Deely is 6 ft, of slim build with short red hair and blue eyes. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Garda at Harcourt Terrace on (01) 666 9500.
There has also been a "fantastic response" to the programme's appeal for help from the public in tracing Ms Suzanne Stedry (17), a German national who went missing from her foster home in Schull, Co Cork, on December 19th.
She is 5 ft 7 in and of light build. She has a stud in her nose and long blonde hair. She was last seen getting the 8 a.m. bus to Cork city on 19th December. Anyone with information should contact Schull gardai on (028) 28111.
