# Philip Cairns: Ireland's Lost Boy

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Podcast: [Red Room](https://stenobird.com/podcast/red-room-4535224)
Published: 2026-02-02T03:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

A thirteen-year-old boy vanishes on a ten-minute walk to school, and nearly forty years later, Philip Cairns’ disappearance remains one of Ireland’s most unsettling missing persons cases. Sign up to Patreon HERE Links 29 years on: The unsolved mystery of 13-year-old Philip Cairns Gardaí: Paedophile may have killed Philip Cairns https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30409915.html https://archive.is/4ER8z https://archive.is/fHR0e Never found: Schoolboy Philip Cairns went missing 30 years ago today March marks 30 years since Philip Cairns disappeared Interview with Emma McMemamy with Nicola Tallant October 2021 https://archive.is/UJgba Gardaí: Paedophile may have killed Philip Cairns https://archive.is/2TlBN DJ put away for 10 years over abuse of girls in home | Irish Independent RTEs Solved and Unsolved  Convicted Paedophile Eamon Cooke Knew Jimmy Savile | Hotpress . To access bonus weekly episodes of Red Room join Patreon HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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