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GARDAÍ HAVE THANKED the public for their assistance in locating 15-year-old Kelsey Stokes from Cork who has been found safe and well.
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Could there be a nationalised app for this kind of announcement?
@Dan Dare: Yeh but then you’d have to have the app – and then there would be less and less people have the app.
Funny thing is – the Journal have an app – and a website, and other news sites and their apps also get the word out.
It’s far more likely people are reading the news on computers, phones, tablets – rather than relying on another 3rd party app for eveyone to have installed.
These announcements are fantastic – it worked for us when my elderly father with dementia got in the car one evening forgetting himself and went missing overnight. A member of the public read the article and recognised him sitting in a car park trying to reverse out of a spot.
@Rafa C: great to read your post with a great ending, and very true, you just don’t know who could help by reading.
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