A newsong about missing Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick is receiving airplay on the Costa del Sol in Spain.

Teenagers Hollie Buhagiar (16) and Georgia Thursting (15) have composed a song entitled Somebody's Lost Princess.

The British-born girls performed the song on Gibraltar radio recently and will shortly be recording the song with the help of expat Dublin businessman Maurice Boland, said Amy's mother Audrey.

The girls, who live in the region, spoke about being moved by the sadness of the search for Amy in recent months.

Amy (15) disappeared while walking from a friend's house in Calahonda in Spain to her own home less than a mile away on the night of January 1 last. No trace of the Dublin teenager has ever been found, despite the use of helicopters and tracker dogs in a huge search by police, emergency service workers and volunteers.

Georgia said: "We felt so inspired by her story. I'm fully supporting the family of Amy and everyone looking for her, and I really feel for them and what they are going through. We hope the lyrics mean as much to her family as they do to us."

PRINCESS

Audrey Fitzpatrick told the Herald she was very grateful to the two teenage girls for writing such a song. The girls performed their song at a fund-raising concert in aid of the search for Amy held in Spain recently, she said.

The lyrics of the song include the lines: "This song is for you girl/'cause your family need you back/Somebody's lost princess/ For you they will stay strong/Your beauty's the reason that they are still holding on."

Audrey said she and her family have been very heartened since she attended a high-level meeting in recent days with top police commanders and the Irish ambassador to Spain.

Irish Ambassador Peter Gunning and Consul Breda Lee visited Malaga to meet Colonel Francisco Beuno of the Guadia Civil and his colleagues about the search. Audrey attended with her partner Dave Mahon.

The main purpose of the meeting was to obtain an updated account of the investigation into the disappearance of Amy.

The Irish Embassy has offered assistance in the case and there has been regular contact and cooperation between the Irish and Spanish authorities since Amy's disappearance.

- Alan O'Keeffe