CJ in Kerry

 Being a criminal justice major, anything true crime or anything really related to that catches my attention! So when we were doing a bus tour in the Ring of Kerry and the bus driver mentioned that a man had gone missing, it really caught not only my attention but also my friend's. This was one time when I was really interested in what he had to say! He explained that there was CCTV camera footage of him in Killarney on the 22nd. There were also reports that he took most of his money out of his account and bought a prepaid phone. This man was a farmer in the Kerry area. We actually passed his farm and saw the Garda searching his fields and property not only that but they have called in the Kerry Mountain Rescue to look for the 56-year-old man. Tony, the other bus driver was telling us at a stop that the search and rescue has gone as far as emptying the vats where they store that cow poop, once they clean it, up just to make sure that he was not in there. At this point, the man has been missing for eight days. 

I will not lie, connecting poetry to an event like this can be very difficult, but going through the works of Heaney his poem "The Return". There are no specific lines that I feel can really explain the situation that I am talking about but I feel like this poem has a connection to the topic.  The return being talked about in this is not just physical, but also an emotional and psychological journey. We can only imagine what this man is going through while he is missing. Not only that but if he has family or even friends how is this affecting them. Overall, this is a sad situation and I can imagine it can be difficult for anyone involved.