Gardaí are expected to submit a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions within the next fortnight in relation to the abduction and murder of Deirdre Jacob more than 20 years ago.

Pick any day in August 1969 and one issue dominated the news agenda — the North. This was the beginning of The Troubles and a period of some of the bloodiest violence that would leave a mark on the province for decades to come.

Detectives believe that two people hold the key to gardaí finalising their file to the DPP on the abduction and murder of Deirdre Jacob more than 20 years ago.

Gardaí in Kildare have renewed an appeal for information in relation to Deirdre Jacob who has been missing for 21 years today.

A violent criminal living abroad is being treated as a suspect for the murder of Deirdre Jacob 20 years ago, it has emerged.

The parents of missing Kildare teenager Deirdre Jacob are making a fresh appeal for information, as the 20th anniversary of her disappearance looms.

The father of missing woman Deirdre Jacob told a packed room, including the justice minister, that the way cases are investigated is “not good enough”.

The family of missing Kildare woman Deirdre Jacob have renewed their appeals for information.

A completed fresh report of an investigation into the disappearance 18 years ago of trainee school teacher Deirdre Jacob has not advanced a garda inquiry into the unsolved case.

The Garda cold case unit, which investigates unsolved homicides and high-profile missing person cases, has had its staffing cut by almost 50% in the past two years.

More than 9,000 people were reported missing in Ireland last year alone, and 17 of these cases remain unsolved.

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.

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

Everywhere he goes, Michael Jacob is looking, searching for his daughter.

Deirdre Jacob's father said it's never too late to come forward with information about his missing daughter.

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.

Today marks the 14th anniversary of Deirdre Jacob's disappearance in Co. Kildare.

GARDAÍ investigating the crimes of convicted rapist Larry Murphy have found nothing of value from their search of a hunter’s cabin near his former home in west Wicklow.

GARDAÍ investigating the crimes of convicted rapist Larry Murphy have removed the concrete base of a remote hunter’s cabin near his Wicklow home.

Convicted rapist Larry Murphy is tonight spending his first night as a free man after his controversial release from prison.

AS public anger mounts at this morning’s early release from prison of rapist Larry Murphy, it has emerged the Government has backtracked on plans to tag sex offenders after leaving prison.

The problem of reintegrating sex offenders into a society that does not want them has no easy solutions, writes Noel Baker on the freedom of rapist Larry Murphy

Justice Minister Dermot Ahern today revealed he has no power to interfere in the imminent release of one of Ireland’s most notorious rapists.

THE brother of convicted rapist Larry Murphy, due for release next month after 10 years in jail, has insisted the Arbour Hill prisoner will not be living with his family when released.

Gardaí are mounting a renewed campaign for information about the disappearance of Kildare woman Deirdre Jacob 10 years ago.

A FRESH appeal will be launched today by detectives probing the whereabouts of a teenager who vanished 10 years ago.

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

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.

ROBERT HOWARD always plays the innocent when confronted by detectives in the interrogation room.

A SERIAL rapist, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of a 14-year-old girl in Britain, was investigated by gardaí in connection with the disappearance and murder of three Irish women, it has emerged.

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 sadistic stalker harassed nine different women over a six-year period by threatening them over the phone and sending obscene mail telling them they'll meet the same fate as missing women like Jo Jo Dollard and Deirdre Jacob, a court has heard.