Thanks girls.
The garda did do a lot of work on the case and they did find his jacket and mobile phone. seemingly there was cars being tampered with outside the village hotel that night and maybe he tried to stop them or something. we will never know.
sweetpea, dont worry bettystown is still a lovely place to live in. i would move out there tomorrow if i could. my mams is from bettystown and my nana still lives there.