Missing woman’s family ‘overjoyed’ at excavation

THE family of a woman who went missing from a Dublin hospital more than 30 years ago are overjoyed at a decision by a coroner to direct further excavation work to be carried out in the vicinity of a trench which was filled in the morning after she disappeared.

Alice Clifford, 57, Cremona Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin, went missing from St Loman’s Hospital in west Dublin on November 28, 1979.

Ms Clifford, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, was never found.