Ireland Ireland - Eva Brennan, 40, Dublin, 25 July 1993

Eva Brennan

Personal information
Birthdate: 4-aug-1953
Age at disappearance: 40
Hair: brown, short
Eyes: blue
Height: 5'7"
Clothing: pink tracksuit and leggings, man's wristwatch with a brown strap, red leatherette handbag about 8"x10" with a flap to the front.

More at link here and picture

http://wherearethey.bravepages.com/cases/ief001.html

This Wikipedia link provides some interesting context and speculation;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland's_Vanishing_Triangle

Eva Brennan left her parents’ house after a family disagreement on July 25, 1993, and headed home to her flat in Rathgar, south Dublin, where she lived alone. She was wearing a pink tracksuit with leggings and a man’s gold watch with a brown leather strap. Brennan, who would be turning 70 this year, has not been seen since.

Next month marks the 30-year anniversary of her disappearance. Her case has not been solved, though gardai said last week that it remained the subject of a live investigation.

Hundreds of people are reported missing in Ireland every year. Most are found. Some, like Brennan, disappear without trace. “She just vanished off the face of this earth,” Colette McCann, her late sister, said in 2013.

Eva Brennan from Terenure near Dublin who went missing on 25th July 1993.
A former head of the Garda Cold Case Unit is calling for the Eva Brennan case to be upgraded to a murder probe - ahead of the 30th anniversary of her disappearance.

The 39-year-old left her parents’ South Dublin home on July 25, 1993, to return to her own apartment in nearby Rathgar.

But she mysteriously vanished and no trace of her was ever found.

American student Annie McCarrick, 26, went missing four months earlier from her home in nearby Sandymount.

Her case was upgraded to murder in March, three days before the 30th anniversary of her disappearance.

Retired detective Alan Bailey looked into the cases as part of Operation Trace, which probed the disappearance of several women in Leinster in the 1990s.

“Anything that provides momentum to an investigation is worth doing. Her disappearance is no different than the disappearance of the other Operation Trace girls.

“If it is considered that they are suspicious enough to warrant a full murder investigation, why not Eva Brennan?

“When you look at the publicity that surrounds Annie McCarrick, who disappeared just four months beforehand, it’s amazing how little interest there was – either garda or media – in Eva’s disappearance.

“Eva is one of those cases that unfortunately slipped through the cracks. Eva is one of those forgotten missing persons.”

25 Jul 2023


''By Laura Fletcher
Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the disappearance of Eva Brennan.

The last time her family saw her was when she visited her parents' home in Rathdown Park in Dublin 6 on 25 July 1993.

Eva went missing just a day shy of four months after American Annie McCarrick, however her disappearance received much less publicity.

"I always considered Eva as one of the forgotten missing persons" former detective sergeant of the Garda Cold Case Unit, Alan Bailey, told RTÉ News.

"If you ask anybody who disappeared in 1993, they'll always mention Annie, but Eva seems to have been forgotten," he said.''

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''Eva's red shoulder-bag, with keys and other personal documents inside it, were gone when her father and brother broke in to her apartment on 27 July, concerned that they had not heard from her.

There has been no recording sighting of Eva Brennan in the 30 years since.

A search of the RTÉ News library showed that her disappearance was not reported on at the time, or indeed since, until today.

However a documentary featuring the case called 'True Lives: Missing' made by Graph Films for RTÉ was broadcast in 1998.''