Diggers used to search for woman missing since 1985

The search for a woman who went missing from her house over 30 years ago is set to continue for the week after excavations began close to her home in Connemara yesterday morning.

Barbara Walsh, who was almost 34 when she disappeared, has not been seen since a party at her house in June 1985.

The mother of seven young children was not reported missing for a week and there has been no trace of her since she was last seen at 4am on June 22, 1985. Known locally as Babe Dara Aindriú Walsh, she had five daughters and two sons, and she lived with her husband Dara at Rusheenamanagh in Carna, Co Galway.