Listen: Keenan family 'devastated' at lack of upgrade in Imelda case...

A Garda review into the disappearance of Imelda Keenan in Waterford City in January 1994 has concluded without an upgrade, leaving her family frustrated and heartbroken.

Imelda, originally from Mountmellick, County Laois, was 22 when she was last seen on Lombard Street.

She had moved to Waterford and was living with her boyfriend at the time.

Despite extensive searches and decades of campaigning by her family, no trace of her has ever been found.

Late last week, the Keenan family met with senior gardai for an update on the progress of the case.

Gerry Keenan, Imelda’s brother, described the family’s devastation in the wake of it - when speaking on 'Deise Today' on WLR this morning (Tuesday)

"We were told up in Ballybricken Garda Station by a member of the investigation team, the crime bureau team and An Garda Síochána, that unfortunately without sufficient evidence this case can't go any further and Imelda will still be classed as missing. That's not good enough for the Keenan family."

Speaking on the efforts of the review team into the disappearance of Imelda Keenan - Gerry said he's not exactly sure what they did.

"Seriously, we don't really know what they've done. We just don't know. They took all the information away, they promised us, they promised us that they would look into Imelda's case from the beginning right up to today. They would go down every rabbit hole, leave no stone unturned, and they would come back to us as soon as possible with information."

Following a fruitless decades-long campaign, the news left Gerry emotionally overwhelmed: "It's in my heart, it's in my mind 24-7. I'll never let it go away. I have a hole in my heart since we had the last meeting with Gardaí. I don't want to face people, I just want to shut everything away. The family are completely devastated with the bad news that we received last Thursday."

To listen back to Gerry Keenan's full conversation with Damien Tiernan, you can click on the image above...