A NORTHSIDE man is appealing for help in finding a cap he had for 50 years and which he left on a Dublin bus recently.
Eddie Shaw (69) left the orange coloured cap on the Number 1 bus after he travelled from the city centre to his home in Santry.
Mr Shaw said the cap is of great sentimental value as his late mother, Margaret, brought it back from Germany for him in the mid 1960s.
“The cap is a very distinctive colour and was in a 1960s style,
” Mr Shaw told Northside People.
“It is a soft sailor’s cap and made of corduroy material. It also has a soft peak.
“A lot of people remarked on it over the years and even up until the time I lost it, people were saying how lovely it was.
“I was around 20-years-of-age when I got the cap and it was so nice that I somehow managed to keep it all these years.
“It has huge sentimental value and I was hoping to keep it forever. It only left the cloakroom at home when I was wearing it out and I was very careful not to lose it over the years.
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The weather was exceptionally good on the day Mr Shaw lost his cap (Friday, July 25). As a result of the heat on the bus, he took off the cap and left it down by his side on the seat. He was sitting downstairs on the double decker bus on the right hand side.
When Mr Shaw realised he hadn’t taken the cap with him after alighting from the bus, he visited Dublin Bus’s Lost Property Office but to his great disappointment the cap wasn’t there.
Through Northside People, he is appealing to anyone who may have come across the cap on that day, to get in touch with him.
“I still haven’t given up hope of finding it,
? added Mr Shaw.
“I would be very grateful if someone came forward with it.
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Mr Shaw is a bass player in a band called Arizona. They fundraise for the Prem Rawat Foundation, which raises money to buy food for starving children in India and Africa. Up until he had the misfortune of losing his cap, Mr Shaw wore it all his gigs.
?¢ Eddie Shaw can be contacted on 087-1278954.