The sister of missing Donegal schoolgirl Mary Boyle met TDs in Leinster House on Tuesday after submitting further statements to gardaí about her disappearance nearly 30 years ago.
Ann Doherty has called for further investigations into the case of her twin sister, then aged six, who was last seen near their grandparents’ home at Cashelard, Co Donegal on March 18th, 1977.
Mary Boyle is presumed dead by her sister.
Ms Doherty met deputies from a range of parties including Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty and Pádraig MacLochlainn, Fianna Fáil’s John McGuinness, Renua leader Lucinda Creighton and Social Democrat Catherine Murphy.
She believes the circumstances of her sister’s disappearance have not been fully investigated, and that evidence has not been examined.
Ms Doherty spent a number of hours issuing a new statement to gardaí in Pearse Street station last Thursday. She was accompanied by country singer Margo O’Donnell, her cousin and a neighbour at the time of her twin sister’s disappearance.
A 64-year-old man was arrested and questioned in Mullingar in October 2014 in relation to the investigation, but was later released without charge.
The investigation is still open.