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.

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.

THE mother of Ireland’s longest-missing person has spoken of her heartbreak for the parents of little Madeleine McCann.

A 19-year-old man remains on life support in hospital this morning following a cliff fall that claimed the life of his 21-year-old friend.

The 21-year-old man who was killed when he fell over cliffs in County Donegal earlier today has been named.