1,200 volunteers comb countryside for missing boy

PEOPLE from as far away as Dublin and Mayo joined up to 1,200 volunteers yesterday as the search intensified for missing schoolboy Robert Holohan.

The story of the disappeared 11-year-old not only galvanised those living in his Co Cork hometown, but brought in scores of people from far away who responded to the garda calls for help.

Several exhausted locals, a number of whom had searched throughout the previous night, had grabbed a few hours sleep before heading out again at first light.