The only daughter of missing Dublin woman Bernadette Connolly has marked one month since her disappearance in an emotional interview with Pat Kenny.
The 45-year-old, from Swords, has not been seen since Friday, January 7th.
Bernadette was last seen on CCTV footage when she was dropped by taxi at the car park of the Shoreline Hotel in Donabate, walking towards the entrance of the Beach.
“I was told that the probability of seeing her on CCTV would be rare, but this [new footage] has proved it’s possible,” Jade Connolly said on Newstalk.
"They’re able to make out, with her timelines, that that was her at 12:46. I have to remain hopeful.”
“She walked right down to the very end of a beach, and took a picture - the Malahide Grand hotel was in view. That was at 12:38pm.”
"Then her belongings were found back up the way by a man at 2:50pm. He found her coat and her bag, and her phone was in her coat pocket,” she said.
“Her belongings were found up high - they weren’t right near the water or anything. They were up nearer the dunes.”
While her mother wasn’t a swimmer, she did like to paddle her feet in the water.
“There was a pink towel [with a red trim]… found close to where the coat and bag were. We can’t be sure if that is my mam’s towel, but it’s something we’re being open-minded about.”
Jade said Donabate beach is not somewhere she would usually go for a walk. “We’d be used to going to Malahide, Portmarnock and Howth. That’s not to say she’s never been there before, but just not with me.”
“She said to the taxi man that she was meeting a friend. We just don’t know.”
Devastated about her mother’s disappearance, she said there are many questions her family needs answered.
"Where is she? Is she on land? Is she on the water? We’re open-minded about the whole thing… while some items have been found, we have no evidence to suggest she’s in the sea either.
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“For me, not knowing would be the worst. If you did know, you could try to learn to grieve and have her back and give her what she deserves. For all I know, she could have gone off with a friend - that this friend knows that all this is going on and she’s missing."
“Was it a tragic accident, that the waves got too strong and pulled her in when she was paddling her feet? There are so many things to think about,” she said, adding: “All I know is I need to keep going with this.”
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Bernadette Connolly's daughter says she 'can't give up' one month after her mum's disappearance
