The daughter of Bernadette Connolly - a missing Dublin woman - has newly confirmed that someone’s home CCTV in Malahide picked her mother up in the background.
The image came to light after an appeal last week, and gardai have said the latest sighting shows the woman at 12:46 pm, which is eight minutes after their existing footage.
The evidence prior to this, led up to 12:38 pm when an image was captured on the 45-year-old's phone of the Donabate beach - the phone was found alongside her bag and jacket lying on the sand.
Jade is now asking anyone in the Malahide area with CCTV systems to check if her mother appears anywhere on the day of her disappearance - January 7 after 12:45 pm.
She told the Irish Independent: “Somebody’s CCTV picked her up in the background, so now I’m hoping that anyone living at that part of the coast, or has cameras pointing towards it, can check them from 12.45 pm onwards to see if there are any more images.”
She went on to appeal to the public once more and said: “If anyone took photographs on the beach that day, the day after Little Christmas, I would urge them to check them and see if my mother is in them in the background.”
So far, what the gardai know is that Ms Connolly got a taxi from Swords in north Dublin to the Shoreline Hotel in Donabate on Friday, January 7, and arrived just before 12:00 pm.
CCTV footage then showed her in the hotel car park walking towards the beach.
She was wearing a black Nike training top, black Nike leggings, black trainers with a white sole, and a black woolly bobble hat.
Her jacket and a bag she had with her were then at the other end of the beach towards Malahide.
This is when the phone was discovered with the image of the surrounding areas at 12:38 pm.
Jade Connolly also said there was a pink towel found near her mum’s jacket and bag, but they do not know whether that belongs to her or not.
So out of an abundance of hope, they are now asking anyone who remembers seeing a woman of this description on the Donabate beach with a pink towel, on January 7, to come forward as well.
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