- We need help, we really need help to progress the search for Deirdre further – Bernadette Jacob.
Deirdre Jacob was 18 years old when she went missing in July 1998, shortly after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which conveys some measure of just how long her parents have been emotionally drained by the knowledge vacuum regarding her fate. Yet the normal human concept of time has been first elasticated, then truncated by the rupturing effect of loss. In the words of her mother:
Every anniversary is difficult, every day is difficult - and I suppose 15 years seems a very long time. Well in some ways it’s a very long time in that we haven’t seen Deirdre and she’s missing. But at the same time because it’s with us all the time, it seems like as if it was yesterday in another way.
