Sister of Dublin man Dean McCann makes appeal to find him after going missing in Galway

The sister of a young man who has been missing since the weekend has made an emotional appeal to the public to help find him as she said her family are living a "nightmare".

Dean McCann, 28, from Dublin, last contacted his family on Sunday at 9.30am when he was near Eyre Square in Galway but they haven't heard anything since.

He had left home on Saturday, February 5 in a grey BMW and drove to Cork and then drove to Galway.

His concerned sister Tara McCann said that he had wanted to go "where people need help" and asked members of the public to search shelters, hostels and places of refuge.

She described him as being 5ft 11in tall with dark hair, a beard, braces and light blue eyes.

Dean is described as being 5ft 11in tall with dark hair, a beard, braces and light blue eyes (Facebook)

Dean has distinctive tattoos on both his arms, with a wolf and a moon and mountains on one arm and an image of a wing on the other.

It is thought he could be wearing a Super Dry navy puffer coat with a green check pattern on the shoulders and a pair of black Adidas tracksuit bottoms with white stripes down the side.

In a social media post that has been shared over 15,000 times on Facebook, Tara wrote: "My brother Dean McCann, who’s 28 from Dublin left our home on Saturday the 5th of February, we haven’t heard from him since talking on the phone Sunday morning the 6th around 9.30am and he was in Galway around Eyre Square.

"He was driving a grey BMW and he had been in Cork on Saturday evening too. I’m begging everyone I know, and everyone else who can help spread his picture around to please share this. (If you can send it to people with a lot of followers I’d be so grateful and especially people in the west of Ireland - mainly Galway).

Dean last contacted his family on Sunday morning at 9.30am when he was near Eyre Square in Galway but they haven't heard anything since (Facebook)

"We are so desperate to know where he is, it feels like a nightmare that’s just not ending. My mam and dad and myself and my other brother are so heartbroken and worried."

Tara added: "All we know about his whereabouts is that he was in Galway on Sunday morning and that he wanted to go where people need help so please keep shelters, hostels, places of refuge in mind, any areas that come to mind."

She urged anybody with information or who had seen Dean to contact Santry Garda Station on 01 666 4000 or Galway Garda Station on 091 538 000.