A DUBLIN man suffering from dementia who had been missing for four nights was found yesterday, confused but healthy, in Alicante in Spain.
Liam Cooney (64), from Cabra in Dublin, had disappeared from near his Benidorm hotel on Staurday morning after socialising the night before with his son and a group of friends on holiday there.
On Monday his family handed out flyers with a picture of Mr Cooney at Dublin airport and had planned to fly to Spain yesterday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs appointed a liaison officer and were working with Spanish police. The search ended yesterday morning when Mr Cooney’s son, Liam jnr, received a call from the Irish Embassy in Madrid saying that a man who could not remember his name had been found in Alicante airport.
“We are presuming he just started rambling and hailed a taxi or something,” his daughter, Anna Cooney said. “There is a Cabra in Alicante apparently, so maybe when they asked him where he was going he just said Cabra and they took him there.”