Not sharing information on missing people ‘prolongs the misery’

People who choose not to share information on missing persons cases prolong the “misery and agony” of their families, a campaigning priest has said.

Fr Aquinas Duffy, a parish priest in Cabinteely, Dublin, who set up the missing.ie website in 2000 when his cousin went missing, was speaking as gardaí concluded the third day of a massive search operation in a 40-acre woodland in East Cork as part of the Tina Satchwell investigation.

Fr Duffy, who helped establish the National Missing Persons Day, said he can’t understand how those with information, which could bring closure to the families of missing people, can remain silent.