Nationwide search for missing teenage girl

Gardaí are carrying out a nationwide search for a missing teenage girl who hasn’t been seen since two days before Christmas.

Tammy Duggan, who is 16 and from Macroom, Co Cork, was last seen on Dec 23. The teenager was spotted in the Ballincollig area at approximately 2pm that day and since then, despite an intensive search, there has been only an unconfirmed sighting of a girl matching her description.

That is said to have occurred three days’ ago in the Drogheda area of Co Louth and gardaí are still trying to establish if it was Tammy.