She left the house and vanished... it makes no sense Fresh plea on mum-of-two Elizabeth after she disappeared five years ago
One person every hour in Ireland is reported missing
HEARTBROKEN FAMILY’S APPEAL
3ins, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a yellow hooded top and blue jeans.
She was described as being around seven stone, but her mother disputes this because she says Elizabeth was around 18 stone when the family last saw her.
In April 2015 her family prepared for the worst when they heard remains had been found at a derelict site in Navan AN average of one person is reported as having vanished every hour in Ireland, it has been revealed. Ten years, nine months, two weeks and five days is the average length of time for a person listed by gardai to remain categorised as “missing”. The but they turned out to be animal bones. Noeleen says her entire family has been torn apart by Elizabeth’s disappearance and her younger brother Ricky, 21, still cries for his big sister.
She revealed: “I’m sick to the stomach not knowing.
“It’s just a nightmare. I go to bed it’s there, I get up in the morning it’s there. It’s in my head the whole time 24/7, average age at which people disappear is 22, and 70% are men or boys.
While the number of reports has risen sharply over the past decade, there has been a steady decline in the number of unsolved cases.
Long-running mysteries include that of wondering about her and about how her kids are doing.
“Her younger brother Ricky can’t cope, he just sits and cries sometimes.
“They were very close. Elizabeth would have had time for her little brother, they got on.”
Noeleen said the search for answers has taken its toll on her health.
She has just been diagnosed with missing schoolboy Philip Cairns, 13, who disappeared on October 1986 while walking back to school.
His case is now being treated as murder, as is that of missing Co Kildare teenager Deirdre Jacob, who vanished in July 1998 just yards from her home.