The Garda investigation into the disappearance of missing Dundalk teenager Ciara Breen, took another twist yesterday as members of the defence forces were drafted in to help with the ongoing search of the Balmers bog area of the county Louth town.

If Ciara Breen was still around Dundalk, she’d be a 35-year-old woman, possibly venturing to The Big House pub to see singer Dominic Kettle in action on Saturday.

The search for missing Dundalk girl Ciara Breen continued in atrocious windswept conditions yesterday as the Garda Technical Bureau, using specialist equipment, battled against the elements.

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Forensic investigators are scouring bog land in Dundalk as part of an 18-year-old search for a missing teenage girl.

Ciara Breen vanished aged 17 from her home on Bachelors Walk, where she lived with her mother, on February 13, 1997.

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Social media awareness campaigns help to keep the memories of missing children alive, according to the ISPCC.

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There were mounting hopes yesterday of a breakthrough in the investigation into the disappearance of Dundalk, Co Louth, teenager Ciara Breen in February 1997 after gardaí arrested a prime suspect for a second time.

A Garda chief has renewed appeals to people with information about the high-profile cases of missing women to end the “living nightmare” of families and come forward.

Gardaí have received a second letter from an anonymous writer in relation to the 17-year investigation into the disappearance of teenager Ciara Breen.

Gardaí have issued a fresh appeal for the public’s help in the 17-year long search for a missing teenager after two potential witnesses recently came forward.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information about a girl who went missing 17 years ago by issuing an age-progression photograph.

Crumbling loyalties could lead to breakthroughs in many of the missing women cases, according to a senior garda who investigated them.

It is 20 years this month since 26-year-old American student Annie McCarrick disappeared in the Dublin mountains, apparently the victim of abduction and murder.

GARDAÍ yesterday appealed for those behind the disappearance of a young Co Louth girl to give up information and help her family find closure.

GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy has placed unsolved crimes as a major priority in his last year in charge of the force.

GARDAÍ say they are still actively probing the disappearance of a 22 year-old woman who was last seen 12 years ago today.

A Crimestoppers campaign seeking information on the murders of three women and disappearance of five others has produced its largest ever response, it emerged today.

A RECORD number of people have responded to an appeal in relation to the deaths and disappearances of eight women.

A DIRECT appeal went out yesterday to anyone who may be harbouring secrets over the deaths and disappearances of eight women.

Crimestoppers has offered a cash reward for information that will help Gardaí solve eight outstanding cases involving women.

On the 10th anniversary of Jo Jo Dullard’s disappearance, her sister believes she knows the identity of her killer and says gardaí have not done enough, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Caroline O’Doherty reports on six women whose disappearances are still unsolved.

THE surprise arrest of five people in the long running garda probe into the disappearance of Wexford teenager Fiona Sinnott will reawaken poignant memories of the six women who vanished without trace in one of Ireland’s great unsolved mysteries.

GARDAÍ have reopened their investigations into the ‘cold cases’ of six women who disappeared without trace in the 1990s.

GARDAÍ are to use a new sophisticated computer system to help crack the unsolved disappearances of six women.

A 15-year-old girl featured on a new missing children’s website was found tonight, just hours after the site was launched.