Gardaí are asking for the public's help in locating a missing teenager in Dublin.

17 year old Aleks Malinowski is missing from his home at Shalimar Apartments on Monastery Road in Clondalkin since Friday.

Aleks is described as being 6 feet in height, of thin build, with tight brown hair and blue eyes.

When last seen he was wearing a grey sports sweater, grey tracksuit bottoms, black and white New Balance runners and had a grey and cream triangular shaped sports bag.