Local council blocks plan to name Tullamore bridge after Fiona Pender

An attempt to have a footbridge over the Grand Canal in Tullamore in Co Offaly named after missing Fiona Pender has been blocked by the local town council.

Thirteen thousand people signed a petition calling for the bridge to be called 'Fiona's Way' in memory of the 25-year-old hairdresser who went missing in August 1996.