AN 80-year-old man who left Ireland 60 years ago is hoping he can make his Christmas wish come true by finding a sister he has not seen since he was a teenager. Martin Farrell, who was born in Poormansbridge, Abbeyleix, Co Laois in 1940, now lives in Melbourne and is desperate to find his beloved older sister Catherine (“Kathleen”). The death of Mr Farrell’s youngest sibling Johnny, at the age of 74 last Christmas Eve in Sydney, has heightened his own sense of mortality and reawakened his desire to locate his sister. “Johnny, the younger of the family, came out to Australia with me, we were close and I suppose his death has made me think more about my siblings and my family life. I would dearly love to know what happened to Kathleen even if she has already passed away,” said Mr Farrell, speaking from his home in Melbourne.