Major search to get underway today in hopes of finding missing woman Fiona Sinnott

A major search operation will get underway today as Gardaí will begin searching open ground in Wexford in an effort to find missing woman Fiona Sinnott who vanished from her hometown in 1998.

This area of land will be searched and subject to excavation, technical and forensic examinations over the coming days.

Road closures will be in place, and local diversions will be in operation.

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Gardaí in the Wexford/Wicklow Garda Division have carried out a sustained investigation over the last 27 years during which significant enquiries have been carried out to establish Fiona’s whereabouts and to investigate the circumstances in which Fiona disappeared.

The investigation continues to be led by a Senior Investigating Officer.

Over the course of this investigation, the investigation team has discovered and collated thousands of documents/reports and taken in excess of 500 statements of evidence and retained a number of exhibits.

Extensive searches have been carried out and six persons were arrested and detained in connection with this investigation.

Fiona was the mother of an infant daughter and at the time of her disappearance, lived at Ballyhitt, Broadway, Co. Wexford.

On Sunday 8th February 1998, Fiona was socialising at Butler’s Pub in Broadway, Co. Wexford with friends. She left Butler’s at approximately midnight. This was the last confirmed sighting of Fiona.

A motorist saw a male and a female on the roadway near Kisha Cross, Broadway on that night, at around midnight.

There were two males in their late teens or early twenties in close proximity.

None of these four people have ever come forward and Gardaí are anxious to trace them or anyone who was in the vicinity who did not, or could not, come forward at the time.

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Investigating Gardaí continue to appeal to any person with any information in relation to the disappearance and murder of Fiona, who has not spoken to Gardaí, to please come forward and speak to our investigation team.

Gardaí continue to appeal to any person who may have previously come forward who felt they could not provide Gardaí with all the information they had in relation to this matter, to contact the investigation team again.

An Garda Síochána appeals to anyone with any information, no matter how small or insignificant you might believe it to be, to contact Wexford Garda Station on 053 9165200, or any Garda Station. Anyone who wishes to provide information confidentially should contact the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.