13-YEAR-OLD GIRL KIDNAPPED
April 1998
GARDAÍ are seeking witnesses to an abduction of a thirteenyear-old girl in Dundalk.
She is walking along Mount Avenue when a white car stops beside her and the driver asks for directions.
It is alleged that a second man gets out, grabs the girl and places her in the vehicle.
She is driven around for a while before being let out of the car at Ladywell on the Dublin Road, seemingly unharmed but shocked by the ordeal.
The incident, as reported to gardaí, is stated to have taken place some time between 7.30pm and 9.30pm.
The car has a yellow number plate. One of the men is described as being approximately 40-years-old, heavily-built with grey hair and wearing a dark jacket.
The other man has a moustache, big nose, and was wearing jeans and a dark jacket.
Anybody who may have seen something suspicious is urged to contact garda station. OBJECTORS to the proposed new service stations off the M1 at Dromiskin say they intend to bring a campaign all the way to a Bord Pleanála oral hearing.
A well-attended residents’ meeting takes place in St. Joseph’s GFC.
Siobhán Smyth says her family will be subjected to 24-hour floodlighting and noise pollution, as well as articulated lorries parking overnight beside her home.
She lives with her husband and daughter at The Commons, just over 40m from the boundary of the proposed service station.
It is earmarked for a site in the townland of Whiterath, 2.5km north of the Castlebellingham junction and six kilometres south of the Dundalk South junction.
The proposals include plans for fuel storage and dispensing facilities for cars and heavy commercial vehicles, a service building including fuel payment and shop facilities, restaurant and toilets, showers, baby changing room, indoor children’s play area, travel/ tourist information booth and ATM.
There will also be parking over an extensive site, picnic areas, outdoot children’s play area, slips roads on and off the motorway,.