A politician at the centre of allegations he had used political influence to prevent continuing garda questioning of the main suspect for the disappearance of missing child Mary Boyle yesterday denied any involvement.

A crowd of more than 500 people heard how the search for a six-year-old Donegal girl missing since 1977 will not stop until she is found.

Gardaí yesterday resumed their search for missing schoolgirl Mary Boyle within a few hundred metres from where she was last seen alive nearly 40 years ago.

A march aimed at highlighting the disappearance of Mary Boyle is to take place in Co Donegal this weekend.

Two former gardaí will allege, in a documentary to be released next month, that there was political interference in the investigation into the disappearance of Mary Boyle in 1977.

Fianna Fáil has refused to comment on whether allegations that Ireland’s longest missing person case has been the subject of a political cover-up will be raised in the Dáil by party leader Micheál Martin.

The twin sister of Ireland’s youngest and longest-missing person is to travel to Washington next week for a series of meetings with Irish-American politicians, lobbyists and organisations.

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

The mother of missing Mary Boyle, 6, apologised for crying at yesterday’s event in Dublin to mark Missing Persons Day.

The man arrested on Tuesday in relation to the disappearance of six-year-old Mary Boyle 37 years ago was last night released without charge.

Gardaí are continuing to question a 64-year-old man in connection with the disappearance of Mary Boyle almost 40 years ago.

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The mother of missing six-year-old Mary Boyle says she knows the man who has been arrested in connection with her daughter’s disappearance in 1977.

When Mary Boyle went missing from near her grandparents’ home in Cashelard, Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, on March 18, 1977, she was one of the country’s youngest ever disappeared.

A man has been arrested by gardaí today in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a six-year-old girl in 1977.

The arrest today of a man in connection with the alleged kidnapping of six-year-old Mary Boyle in 1977 has brought the case of Ireland’s youngest ever disappeared back into the public spotlight. Stephen Rogers chronicles the background to the case.

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The disappearance of a six-year-old girl 35 years ago is set to come back into the spotlight.

A fresh investigation into the disappearance 35 years ago of Mary Boyle, Ireland’s longest-missing person, is being conducted by An Garda Síochána.

The mother of Mary Boyle, who has been missing for 35 years this weekend, said she still thinks of the missing six-year-old every day and the pain never goes away.

A search for the country's longest missing person will continue in Co Donegal today.

THE cousin of a 12-year-old Bray girl who drowned in Glendalough on Monday described yesterday how the ground just gave way under their feet as they were paddling.

GARDAÍ hunting the killer of schoolboy Robert Houlihan are concentrating their investigations on 30 people, several of whom are known sex offenders.

Gardaí hunting for the killer of schoolboy Robert Holohan have a list of 30 suspects, it emerged tonight.

Any child murder probe can draw on international expertise, writes John Breslin.

MANY presents are still lying unwrapped under the Christmas tree in homes around the country because their recipients are not around to open them.

A mother whose daughter went missing seven years ago wants a dedicated garda unit to be established to lead investigations into disappeared people, writes John Breslin.

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

Gardaí now believe a convicted child serial killer was behind the disappearance of a six-year-old girl in the 1970s.