Garda∅ investigating the disappearance of German journalist Ms Bettina Poeschel a week ago today have appealed to tourists who visited the Br· na Boinne visitors' centre near Newgrange, Co Meath to check their videos and photographs for images of the 28-year-old.
Around 500 people passed through the centre last Tuesday and garda∅ are hoping that some who took pictures or videos there may have accidentally included Ms Poeschel.
There are no CCTV cameras on the doors of the centre to establish whether she ever reached there. She left Dublin on Tuesday morning intending to spend the day travelling to Newgrange via Drogheda.
The last confirmed sighting was as she walked along the main Dublin-Belfast road close to Drogheda bus station where, it is believed, she intended to either catch a shuttle bus to the centre or else walk the 10 km route the bus takes to the centre.
"We are appealing for people to either look a their pictures of videos for anyone fitting Bettina's description or to give them to us," said Garda Supt Fergus Doggitt.
He confirmed that additional Garda checkpoints would be in place at Br· na Boinne and nearby Donore village today in the hope of jogging the memory of someone who perhaps only travels through the area on a weekly basis.
Meanwhile the searches of the general Donore/Drogheda/Bru na Boinne area are continuing.