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Updated 19.10
A 19-YEAR-OLD woman from Cobh in Co. Cork who had been missing since around 11pm on Saturday night has been found safe and sound.
Aoife Finan was last seen at around 11pm after attending the Swedish House Mafia gig in the Phoenix Park.
Her mother told Classic Hits 4fm earlier that Aoife had managed to make a call to a friend and appeared to be distressed and lost, but that she hadn’t been heard from since. She has now confirmed that Aoife has been located.
Aoife’s father had earlier issued an appeal via Facebook for anyone with information to get in touch with him.
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That’s the second girl I’ve heard of that went missing after this gig. What the hell was this gig like; armageddon?
Looks like her tattoo is in Arabic, still very distinct though. Hope she’s found safe and well.
I know madness at it all rightn
I was there and it was awful, left halfway through.
Second girl Nicole Byrne has turned up safe, thank god.
Hope shes found safe n well !!
I hope she is found to
why do people thumb down these sentiments?
Gary, why do you care? They are obviously silly people and silly people don’t deserve the satisfaction of your comment, which is what they want! Suggestion to the Journal, give us a middle finger up button that we can give to the trolls! ;)
Wow,Thats great News that she has turned up safe.
Yup Gary.
Been wondering about the thumbs down for some time now.
Maybe this is a new type of syndrome which deserves investigation into negative behaviorism.
Seems like a disaster of a night with stabbings, guys overdosing people going missing! Organisers have a lot to answer for!
How do they?
How is the organisers responsibility to keep tabs on everyone? Thats why there are age limits at events like this one. Drugs in one form or another always make it into gigs like this, and when people have to be strip searched to stop knives making their way into music events….that’s a sad day
The organizers are not personally responsible for 30000 kids. This is a societal problem, a bad attitude to drink and drugs, people seem to take the hard partying Irish to an even more extreme degree then 15 years ago.
@ Marie
U didnt drink and live a little as a teenager? C’mon!!!
Listening to Liveline it sounded like anarchy the poor girl her family must be in a desperate state.who is giving these teens drink money when the rest of us are hard pressed paying mortgages utility bills etc and children are going hungry.see the CR union report out today, nearly 70%of the population have less than €100 to left after bills have been paid!
Give it over
We’re all broke, we get it!
Spare us Marie. I feel for her family but you do everyone involved a disservice by presuming drink had anything to do with this. Your woe-is-me attitude towards how young people spend their money is grating, as is your assumption that this girl was handed money rather than earning it. The scene on sat night was grim but there were plenty of us there who had a perfectly enjoyable and sober evening. Save your prejudice for Joe Duffy.
I agree! She’s 19, a legal adult! At that age I was saving for my apartment and earning my own money. How dare you stereotype this young woman.
Marie, turn off Liveline, close your computer and please go and take a running jump….
Liveline isn’t the real world, Marie
@Marie, your primitive views are nothing more than a distraction from the main issue which is that of a missing girl.
I would not like to hear your opinions on house music.
You would have a bit more money if you weren’t sitting around listening to liveline all day Marie…
Awful time to cry the poor mouth on an article like this.
Blah Blah Blah, I haven’t a shackle after I’m paid but am glad to have my health and a happy and safe family, I’d give my last euro to my kids if it meant they were happy… What they do with it when they are teenagers I can only hope will be good things but even good, well rared kids can go a stray or get led a stray! Please God this girl gets home! Way too must loss and suffering from one night out!
its not 70% please check your facts marie
Ah, give poor Marie a break! We’ve all listened to Liveline at some stage and from reports on the news, there was a lot of underage drinking. I don’t think Marie’s comment referred to this particular girl. Thank goodness she’s ok. Must have been a stressful wait for her family.
Don’t know about everyone but anything I ever hear on liveline usually starts with “well I wasn’t there / I didn’t see it….. but (insert random anger here)”
Is that a tattoo on her neck. If so would love to know what it says, because while people might forget her face they would remember the tattoo as an identifier if she is wearing a strappy top. I hope she is found safe and soon.
would luv to know where the hell she was,
There were no security in the crowd, no designated meeting points from what I could see, it was just a complete disaster.
And my daughter said she only saw 2 Garda all night!…..
Saw tonnes of Garda, met people at the bar or the jacks. Stayed out of the mosh in the middle. What’s wrong with you people? You’re like children.
And Amy could you and your friends not name your own designated meeting place before the concert started
MCD are saying they are only brilliant because they put on extra security & Garda cover above the licence terms. How many EMT’s did they lay on? Did security blank any (doubt it) at the gate for being intoxicated? Did they give out water or have water points available as it was 21c?
I hope that the Health & Safety Authority can step in and get answers to questions like the above I’ve posted. To simply say they went above and beyond the licence detail is far from good enough in light of what went on.
Hope this girl is found safe and is just exending the weekend too much with mates somewhere. Her poor family must be distraught with all the madness that happened at the Saturday gig.
Barry – go read the licence application and you’ll get the answers. What do you expect them to do. Babysit everyone?
Not at all Brian, just apply a little common sense to avoid needless loss or suffering, which is not “baby sitting”. They are inviting people to buy their tickets, to go to the gig. They should show better regard for the patrons. MCD highlighted in their statement the extra security above licence requirements. So why not mention how many EMT’s were on or how many patrons were refused entry for being intoxicated or if they laid on water? The lack of this info in the statement allows for the question to be asked.
I’m no fan of MCD myself….having worked with Ticketmaster for years I have strong opinions on them and their procedures to protect and ensure the safety of concert goers above other things. The promoters lost the run of themselves completely here. Interesting Barry, I was thinking about EMTs aswell when I heard this story first, it didn’t surprise me that they omitted them from the statement. I recently met the head of the Derry City of Culture events team, they’ve gotten sponsership from a bottled water company to supply free bottles to events in the city…I’ve seen it done over here in England but not in Ireland. Hope this becomes a trend.
Blame the people who over drank, the people who took drugs for their actions not organisers. Ridiculous to blame them. Nanny state is what you want.
People need to take responsibility for their own actions as much as possible.
As for that animal who stabbed people I don’t know. Never let him out.
I hope this girl is found safe and well.
Aidan, like it or not the organisers has a responsibility to the consumer that they get the service they pay for. This includes being in a safe environment, both from a crowd and venue perspective. Clearly the security of the event has to come into question here, this is part of the service. Crowd control is important to ensuring the safety of the concert goer, and from the looks of this MCD are under pressure to keep their reputation intact. Of course, MCD didn’t make these people pick up knives and get absolutely langers but they have a rep for organising poorly structured events…Oxegen anyone?!
I really hope this girl gets home to Cork ok.
She’s been found safe and well apparently. :)
MCD are no way responsible for this, how could they be. ???
Glad shes been found.
But I still think to hold organisers responsible is madness. How much security do you want? Metal detectors? 1 Garda for each scroat? I just don’t know how you expect then to monitor 100% of 45000 people, if even .01% are bag eggs that leaves 4-5 people you may not see or catch who are dodgy. Usually when something bad happens its too late. Sure how do you know until it happens?
I was talking to a girl I work with here in London and she was saying that the story goes as follows: they were using metal detectors for a section of the crowd as they were coming in early on but gradually during the day they stopped using these to keep the flow of the crowd going. I heard of people that had bottles of vodka in their handbags and got in without a stop and search, another group of my friends were searched thoroughly before they entered the site. Why the disparity in security checks at the gate?! I don’t know what firm did the security but questions do need to be asked there. I agree with you in the sense that you can’t personally watch over 45,000 people. But as a promoter, you have the responsibility to protect each ticket holder from the minute they go through the gate to when they leave.
@ Brian Daly I totally agree with you. I would have thought that @ 18 and over that a persons actions are their own responsibility and that some of these young people would have been trusted to have babysat for pocket money through secondary school and some ( and thankfully it a small minority) cannot look after themselves even over the age of consent they still need babysitters and the babysitters that will be entrusted to carry out this chore wear Navy Uniforms and are paid by the state. Yes our Prison Service and their is quite a few Prisons in our little State all well EQUIPT too I heard Thankfully most of the thousands that attended on both night DID BEHAVE and enjoyed their evening
Is there no end to the bad things that happened on Saturday night?? I hope this girl is found safe and well soon.
Why did it take so long for this to get to the media? The park was full of people again last night, a perfect chance to have people looking out for any clues to her whereabouts. Please god she will be found safe and well, thinking of her family xx
Problem is that people aren’t officially deemed missing for 24hours. This story was being tweeted around yesterday.
@brian daly. rubbish. you are officially missing when youre reported missing. 24hrs thing is movies/american.
Hope this girl turns safe & well soon!
Hope this girl turns up safe & well soon!
We heard you the first time
Wonder will you still say that when your kids go out and don’t come home till a few days later? ;-)
She should be forced to watch TV3 for pulling that little stunt!
Who are the simple minded freaks red thumbing comments from people hoping that this girl is found alive and well?
Thanks for feeding the trolls Paul
Sorry about that Tom. Don’t post on here that often so not used to dealing with the pond life that troll sites like this:) Thanks for the advice.
If I said to everyone to thumbs me down they’d probably thumbs me up. As you said its pond life trolls on here mainly
Maybe the people who are intelligent enough to be able to read the article! It’s about her been found safe and well!
Where the hell were her friends?nThat concert sounds like a lot of trouble for a lot of people.
Poor Child … she is probably mortified by the media interest. Don’t think she will be doing a disappearing act again. Hope she now realises what worry she caused her family…………
she is not a child at 19, and unless she has been held hostage for the past 36 hours, she needs a good swift kick up the backside for doing this to her family and friends.
I agree with you Josephine, after watching her poor mother on the news last night, and especially after they discovered her bag with phone and purse inside I presumed the worst!
I’m so glad she’s been found but if that were my daughter she sure as hell wouldn’t be doing it again!
Great she has been found! Where the hell did she end up that she couldn’t manage to be in contact before now though I wonder?! Delighted this story ended well. Imagine the weight lifted from her family and friends!
I can’t see how this girl couldn’t have made contact with friends/family before now, even if her phone was dead. Sure pretty much everyone in the country has a phone.. Maybe this will encourage people who travel in groups to events like this to designate a meeting place if they get separated, can’t always rely on phone charge! Anyway, I’m glad she’s been found safe..
Everyone needs to pray for her.
Pray to who? The god that ceases to exist
I prayed for sun last week and all I got was rain! So I think I’ll pass on that one thanks very much! ;)
Cop on
It is good she has turned up safe and sound… now parents you ground her indefinately
Ground her??? haha she’s 19 Ray.. she’s not a kid.
complete non story. 19 year old goes on the piss for two days. shocking!! are people not dying in Syria anymore?
All well and good saying that now, but two parents didn’t have a clue where their daughter was for two days.
Charming.
Great news that she’s been located.
No excuse. A quick call or text to say ‘hi, I’m fine, stopping over for a few days.’ takes seconds.
I hope to god they do a full search of the park it’s full of places where someone lost and disoriented could fall/slip down and lie injured. My thoughts are with her and her family. It’s every parents nightmare. Hope we hear she’s ok.
So glad she is safe and sound, that is all that matters, and i will speculate about what happened it is not our business. It also shows us that when the news gets out quick about a missing person and that the parents were on the ball by working the media and social media within 24 hrs. That is how all missing person cases should be worked, QUICKLY and not a week later.
She’s been found safe and well and is on her way back to Cobh.
Marie cop on… look at the headline.. hope Aoife is found today.. i was there too sat and Sunday.. plenty of guards outside but nothin like oxygen where they have undercover guards and plain clothes security inside.. mcd should’ve done better.. but not to get off the point please find this girl today
I hope that this young girl is found safe and well.
Parents! Awful worriers!
she turned up apparently
I went last night to Snow Patrol and considering all the incidents on Saturday night, it was not patrolled as it should have been by Garda or security, a fight broke out in front of us and no one in sight to break it up, thankfully they ended up eventually walking away and that was the only shit we saw going on, other than playful mud fights but still should have been a huge security presence after Saturday night!
on the lash ..if i was a parent id freak out too..glad she’s back home there was enough drama from that gig..
Just found!!
Them concerts should be banned.
Great news that she is safe and well, thank god. In relation to the thumbs down I think it may be due to people using touch phones and hitting off it by accident as they scroll down.
Sorry finger just slipped there
Noel Edmons should bring back ‘Wait Til I get You Home’
she was found safe :)
according 2 red fm she has been found safe and well
Any bit of luck she will turn up. 99 out of 100 do but does seem very odd.
Her poor family. Horrible stuff.
I used to be pee’d off in other country’s when attending a big gig, that the drink was alcohol free. Now I’m a Dad I can see the problems it causes. We don’t know what happened this girl, but we can speculate and the possibilities are very worrying. Date rape, drugs, etc.. please God I’m way off.
Your way off trust me
a simple fone call could of avoided all this for the girl! as for the stabbings, it only takes 1 guy to go on a killing spree luckily enough it didn’t end that way, what if he had a gun would he of used it with the same intention. who knows!!!!! i have been to many festivals, and the searching was thorough, but clearly not this one. according to my mate he seen a fella not shy of 17 selling “LINES” of cocaine for 5 euro and shouting it about like a street-trader, and making them for anyone who wanted them hilarious stuff really!!! next bill Cullen, penny skin bombs anyone???
Was recently at some gigs, such as rhcp and mumford and sons and volvo ocean race and the security and gardai were brilliant, particularly at the peppers where if anyone was looking drunk or unruly, they were pulled out of the crowd or giving a warning, well done sword security on the last 3 events i was at, and thank goodness aoife safe and sound, heard her mom on the radio today, also at the music gigs particularly the rhcp, security guys were giving out water
Most people don’t read the article do ye no need to say “hope she’s found safe” it’s been stated that she has in the above piece.
actually it wasnt at the time those comments were posted, when an article is updated (as u can see in the headline) the old comments are still there
great news shes ok!
Hi Niall, to echo what Abi said, this is an update to a previous article about Aoife being missing.
Thanks, Emer
when a article is updated the comments stay the same so most these are from previous article on this today when she was still missing
She has been found,safe and well,thank goodness :
thank fk for that!:-!
That’s great news.
The girl has been found safe & well is that not enough 4 ye?? Nobody knows what happened between Saturday night & when she was found just because she’s 19 doesn’t automatically mean she partied 4 days on drugs oblivious to what was going on & even if she was its not our right 2 speculate & I don’t think she’ll do it again in a hurry!! She’s home safe with her family that’s all that matters
I posted a comment on this article, where is it?????
@Joan, as far as I can tell there were none of your comments removed from this article. Maybe it was one of the other articles about incidents at the Phoenix Park?
Thanks, Emer
Do people not read the article before they comment? It clearly states that the girl was found safe and well and everyone is “hoping she is found”. The girl was thankfully found and she is ok!
This has been discussed earlier. It’s the same article as earlier! It was updated!
Fair enough. My mistake. I was completely confused!
No Emer
It was specifically about this missing girl. Anyways don’t matter, just a tad annoying.
I’ve had a search through Joan and can’t find it. Sorry about that.
Emer
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