Annual Fiona Pender Memorial Walk this Sunday in Tullamore
It is 30 years since Fiona Pender went missing
THE annual Fiona Pender Memorial walk takes place on this Sunday, August 23.
This is the 30th anniversary of Fiona's disappearance and people are urged to support the event.
Walkers will meet at 11am and proceed along Fiona's Way to Digby bridge, Cappincur and then back to the town centre.
Fiona will be remembered at the start of the walk with prayer and reflection and a lone piper will also play.
People can choose to walk down one side, cross over at the lock and come back down the other side or they can walk back and forth on the same side.
Fiona Pender went missing in 1996 at the age of 25. She was seven months pregnant at the time of her disappearance.
The daughter of Sean and Josephine Pender, prior to her disappearance she worked as a hairdresser and a part-time model.
She was last seen by her partner John Thompson at her home on Church Street in Tullamore. Earlier in the day she had gone shopping with her mother to buy baby clothes.
There have been numerous searches for Fiona over the years, including the Grand Canal and the Tullamore River.
A wooden cross was discovered in Monicknew woods in the Slieve Bloom mountains in 2008. It read 'Fiona Pender Buried here.'
Fiona was also included in the Garda 'Operation Trace' This was an inquiry into a number of high-profile disappearances of women in the 1990s. However, the mystery surrounding her disappearance continues.