Missing Offaly woman’s mum ‘heartened’ by bridge name bid

The mother of a missing Offaly woman has described the level of support for a proposal to name a bridge after her daughter as “very heartening”.

Josephine Pender delivered a petition containing almost 13,000 signatures to town clerk Martin Daly of Tullamore Town Council yesterday.

Campaigners want a replacement footbridge named “Fiona’s Way” in memory of the 25-year-old hairdresser and part-time model. Fiona was seven months’ pregnant when she vanished in Aug 1996.