Anthony 'Tony' Donnellan

The Missing

Darrell Brown

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we bring you the story of Anthony ‘Tony’ Donnellan, whose disappearance from Camberwell, South London has baffled the authorities for close to three decades.

Tony, 29, was originally from Ireland but moved to the UK in the eighties. He worked a variety of jobs over the years and was employed as a barman in Harvey Nichols when he vanished in October 1995.

This episode hears from Tony’s older sister Rita. She talks about their upbringing in county Clare and how Tony, who was gay, felt unwelcome in Ireland at a time when homosexuality was illegal. Rita walks us through the events leading up to Tony’s disappearance and explains how she ultimately came to the decision to hire a private investigator to look into her brother’s case.

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0:00.0	For a number of reasons, many of us end up far, far away from where we started.
0:17.0	The place you grew up might have been one of limited opportunity. Maybe it was
0:23.2	somewhere you felt you weren't able to be your true self, or perhaps a traumatising event made
0:29.4	staying there and building a life for yourself next to impossible. For Anthony Donnellan,
0:36.6	Tony to his friends, it was for all of those reasons that he chose to leave the small Irish village he'd grown up in.
0:44.9	Tony initially moved to London, living with his older sister Rita, before striking out on his own.
0:51.5	He was innately curious about the world around him and was a reservoir of knowledge.
0:57.0	What's more, he was a deeply kind and loving person who cherished his family more than anything
1:04.0	else. So when he vanished, without a trace, in April 1995, his loved ones couldn't explain it.
1:13.6	And they've been searching for him ever since.
1:17.6	I'm Pandora Sykes and you're listening to The Missing.
1:22.2	A What's the Story original podcast series brought to you with the help of the charities missing people and locate
1:28.8	international. They believe that all of the cases in this series could still be solved.
1:36.8	This is The Missing, Anthony Donnellan. When somebody does mention his name, the first thing that comes to my mind is this tall, good-looking man with an amazing smile and a lust for life.
1:59.3	And it leaves me somewhat speechless. What happened? Where is he? Is he alive?
2:08.1	In order to tell Tony's story, we have to go back to his birthplace, the picturesque remote
2:14.0	countryside of County Clare. My parents were farmers.
2:18.4	We are talking the early 70s.
2:21.4	We came from a farming community.
2:24.7	Our best playmates were ourselves, you know?
2:28.1	I mean, the farm was isolated.
2:30.7	Our social life is the fun that we got up to on the farm.
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