“Bill” was found at a bus stop in Ballincollig in 1986 with apparent amnesia, unable to tell Gardai his name or where he came from, and taken into psychiatric care. He lived in hospital for 40 years - there was never a public appeal to find his family
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A man found confused in Ballincollig in 1986 spent decades in care without ever being identified