The family of missing woman Bláthnaid Timothy have added their voice to a Garda appeal for contact from a taxi driver who was the last known person to see her before she disappeared.
Ms Timothy (33) used her ATM card to withdraw €60 at the National Irish Bank on Sir John Rogerson's Quay on Dublin's south quays at 8pm on Tuesday, December 14th, eight days ago.
CCTV footage from the scene shows her getting into a taxi across the street, which may have been a black Mercedes.
Ms Timothy, a successful executive who had worked for Coca-Cola and KPMG, is from Glenamaddy, Co Galway but was living in Dublin, sharing a flat at Smith Hall on Camden Street.
Some 40 family members and friends have been distributing leaflets with her photo and details across the city centre and at taxi ranks.
"We're having a big push today to try and locate the taxi because tomorrow people start leaving Dublin for Christmas and the dynamic changes," her brother Ronan Timothy said today. "Our expectation was and we may have been a bit naïve in thinking that once we got the footage things would move very quickly. Unfortunately nothing has changed. They still have not located this taxi driver."
Mr Timothy said the full resources of Harcourt Terrace Garda station are being used and they have drafted in extra gardai to help. "They have been fantastic, and taxi drivers have been contacted at the different companies," Mr Timothy said.
"We want to talk to as many taxi drivers as possible, and particularly foreign national taxi drivers because they might not have been listening to the radio or reading the papers and might not know. The key thing is to get this taxi driver and to find out where he left her. Everything else is speculation. Until we do that we're at a standstill."
The leaflet has Bláthnaid's photo and her description. She is 5ft6in tall of thin build, with medium length dark brown hair and blue eyes.
She was wearing a three-quarter length black wool coat, grey jeans and black and red scarf when last seen.
Anybody with information is asked to contact Harcourt Terrace Garda station on (01) 666 9500. The flyer is also on Facebook.
