‘The pain doesn’t cease. I think of Mary every day’

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.

Mary will be remembered by members of her family, including her mother Ann Boyle, and identical twin sister, also Ann, at a special Mass tomorrow to mark her disappearance in 1977.

Mary Boyle vanished on Mar 18 while visiting her grandparents for St Patrick’s Day at their home in Cashelard, Co Donegal. She has been missing for the longest period of time for any person in the country.