Mary’s mum: I want to know truth before I die

When Mary Boyle went missing from near her grandparents’ home in Cashelard, Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, on March 18, 1977, she was one of the country’s youngest ever disappeared.

More than 37 years later the six-year-old from Belcruit, Kincasslagh, has the dubious title of being Ireland’s longest missing person.

The little girl was on a family visit to her grandparents’ home accompanied by her parents and siblings when she disappeared.