Campaign to get Missing Persons Helpline restarted

Relatives of people who have gone missing are stepping up calls for the Government to establish an all-Ireland helpline.

Relatives of people who have gone missing are stepping up calls for the Government to establish an all-Ireland helpline.

They will be staging a candlelit vigil outside the Dáil on Budget day next week.

A national Missing Persons Helpline was shut down in March 2005 when funding was withdrawn.

Campaigners claim the service could be a vital tool for helping trace some of the 2,000 people who go missing in Ireland each year.

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