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# Not tonight
- URL: https://www.thegist.ie/not-tonight/
- Published: 2016-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Author: Simon McGarr
- Tags: #substack

I will not do a News in Gist tonight.  
  
 Philip Cairns was 13 when he went missing from my neighbourhood. I was 10\. By the time I was 13, I used to cycle down a nearby road to go to my local library. The smiling face from his photo was with me in the back of my mind whenever I passed by.  
  
 Later, I worked with his sister. I remember the shock of seeing her in the newspaper as her family made a fresh appeal for information about their missing brother, missing son. I hadn't known.  
  
 Tonight, there's a report that the police believe he was killed by a man who is now dead.  
 I can't think about anything else right now.  
  
 @Tupp\_ed