'Families are the best detectives' - Call for better missing persons database

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'Families are the best detectives' - Call for better missing persons database
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Priscilla Clarke went missing on May 3rd 1988 after she went out horse riding near the Dargle River

The sister of a woman who has been missing since 1988 has said a better database is needed to help families searching for loved ones.She is one of more than 800 people who remain missing in Ireland.Priscilla went missing in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow after she went out horse riding near the Dargle River.Priscilla was accompanied at the time by another woman, whose body was recovered from the river in May 1988.

"The Guards have jewellery, they have other items which they could put on a website, and families everywhere are the best detectives.Ms Clarke Keane said they hope to meet the Justice Minister Helen McEntee as well. "At the end of tomorrow's meeting, we are looking for a meeting with the Minister where we can convey all of the issues that families are going to put at the meeting," she said.Ms Clarke Keane said having someone go missing changes everything in your life."When somebody is missing in your life it changes everything in your life."You have that constant in your mind of wanting to search and going into search mode.

"I think anyone with someone missing, no matter what, they'll always be thinking, 'Should I go into the Garda station? Should I contact the police in the UK?' "It certainly gets easier in the sense that you have come to some terms with it, but you're still in that search mode - that doesn't go away," she added.

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