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Updated 7.12am
GARDAÍ ARE TO hold a press conference to outline recent progress in their investigation into the disappearance of Offaly woman Fiona Pender more than 18 years ago.
Investigators are to begin searching an area of ground near Portlaoise.
It follows reports in recent months that officers are close to making an arrest in the case, after new information passed on to them by police in another jurisdiction.
Fiona, who worked as a hairdresser, was 25 when she disappeared in August 1996, and is presumed to have died.
Gardaí confirmed yesterday that a search will take place at a location near Portlaoise from this morning.
Progress
With a breakthrough in the case potentially imminent, here’s a recap of what’s been happening over the last 18 years…
After many months of desperate searching, no trace of Pender was found.
Extensive Garda excavations at the site did not uncover any evidence.
First published 4 December
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There is an adjoining report that Harris states that ‘you can’t pitch a tent anywhere you want’.
I have a question: when these tents are distributed, are those they are given to told where they can be pitched?
I have another: is there anywhere where they can be pitched that is acceptable to the government?
And who is paying for these tents anyway?
The government, via ‘charities’, on behalf of the taxpayer?
The government, which then destroys those tents within hours of distributing them?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: they are pitched up in Milltown now making camp.
@Sean Money: @Sean Money: Do you know if there is anywhere these can be pitched that is acceptable to the authorities?
If not, then why are these being distributed?
Are our government departments really *that* disfunctional?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: exactly they are in cahoots with the tent makers, millions spent on tents now
See this ffg governments will never and I mean never stop pollution of everything for profit ,
@Robert Halvey: Bet they sell the fish too!!
Slurry, I suppose. Farmers, I suppose.
The reason it was only reported yesterday is because nobody works the weekend
I don’t see pike on the list. Probably being killed off by the angling clubs. They kill pike all over Ireland seemingly with the blessing of the IFI. Taking out the predators leaves weak and sick fish to spawn. In turn making the fish sizes smaller in the rivers. You don’t take a predator out of a habitat
@Michael o Dwyer: it’s not the clubs killing them off, it’s the international fishing folk who clean out the rivers and lakes of every fish they get their hands on, no matter the size . They are a plague
@Michael o Dwyer: It’s more likely that it’s just a narrower river that doesnt contain pike. Of which there are many around the country
Pharmaceutical waste !
@sakk sa: irish water chemical leak at the water plant, either chlorine or fluoride
Hopefully the carcasses can be salvaged for food or even pet animal feed.
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