Missing Persons Day: Authorities collecting DNA samples in effort to identify remains

Gardai and forensic experts are working on collecting DNA samples from the families of missing people here to help put names to unidentified remains.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan hosted a ceremony to commemorate missing people at King’s Inns, Dublin today, to mark the sixth annual national Missing Persons Day, and told those in attendance that there “will always be a commitment to keep searching for the truth” as to what happened their loved ones.