Families in grim hunt of morgues for missing Irish

THE families of three Irish people missing in Thailand for more than a week are expected to continue their grim searches of makeshift morgues following the discovery yesterday of this country’s first victim.

It has been confirmed by the Department of Foreign Affairs that the body of Dublin woman Eilis Finnegan has been found in Thailand.

Ms Finnegan, a 27-year-old former flight attendant from Ballyfermot, was on holiday with her boyfriend on Phi Phi Island.