Members of Winnie Brady's family spoke of their distress yesterday at the fact that they are unlikely to find out exactly how she died.
After the inquest into her death, Ms Brady's husband, Stephen, said he had been through an inquest and postmortem results already in Bosnia, and he had not been expecting to hear anything new yesterday.
"It's the fact that we'll never know what happened that's hard to deal with," he said.
Their daughter, Carmel Moody, said she would never have closure.
"We feel relieved that this is finally over and that we can get on with the rest of our lives and put our mam to rest, but this doesn't make us feel any more wiser than before because we don't know the exact cause of death.
"If we got told she died from the cold or a heart attack, that might bring closure, but the fact that we do not know, to me it will never bring closure."
Ms Brady's youngest daughter Una said she hoped her mother died peacefully. "The only thing I can think is she climbed up the mountain and couldn't get any further and couldn't go anywhere," she said.
"That she just lay down and fell asleep and she just never woke up. That thought keeps my mind at peace. That's what I keep thinking, and please God that's what happened to her. That's the only comfort we have in what happened to her."
However, her sister, Bernadette Shevlin, said she could not understand why her sister would have gone up the hill where she was found when she could not walk properly. The mother of five suffered from arthritis. She also asked why the hillside was not searched when her sister first disappeared.
Some 200 volunteers and local police took part in a search for Ms Brady but found no trace of her. Her body was subsequently found in the hills above Medjugorje by a hunter in January this year, just over four months after she went missing.
She was identified by pictures of four rings and a watch she was wearing.
Her husband Stephen, who travelled to Bosnia to look for his wife on September 8th, said at the time that they had no reason to search the hillside.
Ms Brady's body was repatriated to Dublin on January 19th.
After the hearing Mr Brady said he knew his wife had been upset but that it was very hard to say what really had happened."The authorities over there couldn't come up with it, so it's hard for me to come up with it," he said.
Four of the couple's five children - Carmel, Linda, Una and Stephen - attended the hearing. Another sister Joan is in hospital.