Local Gardaí assisted by the Garda Water Unit have been carrying out searches of the River Nore in Kilkenny City today for a man who went missing more than a year ago.
46-year-old Latvian native, Valerijs Zimecs was last seen at the Talbot Court estate on the Freshford Road on November 1st 2015.
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He had been living in Carlow and had attended the emergency department at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny that morning.
However, he left after two hours.
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According to Gardaí, today’s search was being conducted not because of any fresh information, but rather in the hopes that something might turn up.
