19/01/2015

Body Recovered Of Missing 61-Year-Old

Officers from the Garda Water Unit have found the body of a 61-year-old woman who had been missing for more than five days.

Marian Power had been missing since Monday morning of last week, when she was last seen leaving St Edmundsbury Hospital in Lucan in Co Dublin.

110 gardai and Civil Defence officers were joined by more than 150 volunteers in the search for Ms Power.

Her body was discovered shortly after lunch time on Sunday and removed to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown.

A post-mortem examination will be carried out today.

(MH/IT)

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