Pan-Irish Missing Persons Hotline Wanted

A cross-Border helpline should be set up to deal with cases of missing persons across the island of Ireland, a campaigner on the matter has said today.

Tom Brown, whose sister Eileen Coss has been missing since November 1999, was outside the Department of Justice on St Stephens Green in Dublin to call on the Government to help establish an all-island helpline and a dedicated missing persons Garda unit, which would be funded by the Cross Border Fund.

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Father of Missing Girl Raising Money to Hire PI

The father of missing Dublin teenager Amy Fitzpatrick is campaigning to raise funds to hire a private investigator to help in the search for his daughter in Spain.

Christopher Fitzpatrick wants to bring in an independent investigator to help find the 16-year-old, who has not been seen since she failed to return to her Spanish home on January 1.

She had been living in the tourist resort of Riviera del Sol on the Costa del Sol for the past few years with her mother but went missing after she left a friend's house to walk the 10-minute journey home.

Her father, who lives in Ireland, wants to hire a private investigator, and has also called for CCTV footage from the track along which she apparently walked home to be examined.