The search for the Irish women who have gone missing in the Vanishing Triangle

At least eight women were abducted and murdered in Leinster in the 1990s. All cases remain unsolved, a stark fact that is deeply disturbing, writes Barry Cummins

The term ‘Vanishing Triangle’ has been applied by the media to the part of Leinster from where the women disappeared in the 1990s.

Patricia Doherty was the first to vanish. The 30-year-old mother-of-two, who worked as a prison officer in Mountjoy Jail, disappeared two days before Christmas 1991. 

She had earlier spent much of that day purchasing presents in The Square shopping centre in Tallaght. It was six months later that a man out cutting turf in the Dublin mountains found Patricia’s buried body.