Gardaí battle the elements in search for Ciara Breen

The search for missing Dundalk girl Ciara Breen continued in atrocious windswept conditions yesterday as the Garda Technical Bureau, using specialist equipment, battled against the elements.

Their efforts are concentrated on a specific area of the 16-acre Balmers Bog on the town’s Ardee Rd, less than 3km from her home in the Bachelor’s Walk estate.

If a body is discovered at the location, then whoever placed it there after she disappeared on Thursday, February 13, 1997, when she was 17, took some serious risks as the location is extremely close to Dundalk Garda Station.