GARDAÍ have dismissed reports that Operation Trace, established to investigate the disappearance of six women, has been abandoned.

A SISTER of missing woman Jo Jo Dullard yesterday said she had "lost complete confidence" in the gardaí.

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.

MARY PHELAN, the sister of one of the six missing women, has called for the establishment of a specialised missing persons investigation unit.

ON the face of it, it seemed that the South Western Area Health Board (SWHB) was to be commended when it took action against a Rathgar nursing home on a number of counts following a visit by a team of inspectors twice this month.

A health board began a court bid today to shut down a Dublin nursing home because of “extemely serious” breaches of operation guidelines.

AGE-ENHANCED photographs of missing young people will be posted on a new website set up by the gardaí but linked to an internationally renowned centre that tracks disappeared children.

The Taoiseach is being asked to set up a missing persons bureau in Ireland, similar to those operating in America and other countries.

GARDA procedures for investigating missing people are 20 years out of date, according to Fianna Fail TD John McGuinness.

DETECTIVES who headed the investigation into the missing British schoolgirls, Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, have been asked to examine the case of disappeared Kilkenny woman, Jo Jo Dullard.

Mary Phelan, sister of missing woman Jo Jo Dollard, who has not been seen since 1995, is calling on the Taoiseach to introduce a National Missing Person’s Day.

A national monument to missing people in Ireland was unveiled today by President Mary McAleese.