The Missing Women Roll-Call

national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Monday October 09, 2006 21:45 by Missing

Stop Violence Against Women.

Since the highly publicised case in 1993 of the disappearance of Annie Mc Carrick
there has been little done in the way of Gardai Resources to tackle the issue of
finding the women that have gone missing along the East Coast of Ireland.

There has been little done in the way of resourcing to combat the violence which
has led to the death of two women, and the disappearance of one Meg Walsh
in Waterford.

No-one has been brought to Justice for the death Of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
Where are the Department of Justice resources going?

Some of the names of the women.

The campaigns to locate loved ones are driven tirelessly by the families.
Including the endless work of the Deeley family.

Trevor has been missing years- its not alone about missing women, but
about an under-resourced missing person's network, but is written in the context
of the disappearance of Meg Walsh (35) mother, who reported feeling 'unsafe'
just before her disappearance.

Today there was an inquest into the death of a woman whose body was found
wrapped in blanket on Mercer's Street, her partner took a lump hammer to her because
'she bit his ear during sex'.

A woman was founded strangled and tied to her steering wheel in Bluebell,
her husband walked free- Murder could not be proven.

The murderer of Sophie Toscan du Plantier has never been found. Her parents
travel to Ireland every year to lay flowers in West Cork.

The bodies or wherabouts of Annie Mc Carrick. Jo Jo Dullard. Fiona Sinnot.
Deirdre Jacob. Fiona Pender have never been discovered.
Parents have died not knowing what has happened to the children they named,
cared for and brought up.

Meg Walsh is a mother. She is missing one week.
There is no trace or line of enquiry.
There are sightings.
There were sightings of all these women.

In the nine year regime of this government, there has been inadequate resources
directed to the search for answers in relation to the survivors and loved ones
of these women.It's a small country.

The disappearances were in largely rural locations.
Most of them were dotted along the East Coast.
The issue of resourcing the searches is a cop-out.
Stop violence against women travelling in this country.

Images of the missing women are on ; http://www.garda.ie/angarda/missing.html