Mary Boyle’s sister to call for garda chief to go

The twin sister of Ireland’s youngest and longest-missing person is to travel to Washington next week for a series of meetings with Irish-American politicians, lobbyists and organisations.

Ann Doherty is expected to relay to members of the US Congress her belief that her sister Mary Boyle, 6, was sexually assaulted and murdered when she went missing from her grandparents’ rural Co Donegal home in 1977, and she will further claim that the investigation into her disappearance has been the subject of garda and political interference.

She is also expected to call for the resignation of Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald and Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan for “failing Mary Boyle, her right to justice, and the public interest”.