Published on Friday6thDecember2013
Inaugural National Missing Persons Day
Each year approximately 8,000 people are reported missing in Ireland. Justice Minister Alan Shatter today launched Ireland’s first national Missing Persons Day at Farmleigh House, Dublin.
Missing Persons Day will take place each year on the first Wednesday in December.
The ceremony at Farmleigh saw musicians mark the national day, with soprano Celine Byrne performing “A Candle For You” by Marie Dunne.
The Garda Band and the Penston Vocal Academy, an Arklow-based youth choir, also performed.
Dermot Browne, Chairperson of Missing In Ireland Support Services, and Helen Grealis of Searching for the Missing, spoke at the ceremony.
Minister Shatter and Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan also addressed the ceremony.