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'Brendan is finally getting the dignity of a funeral'
Brendan Megraw is being laid to rest in Belfast today.
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Brendan Megraw is being laid to rest in Belfast today.
Search for Joe Lynskey, who disappeared forty years ago, may happen next.
Sinn Féin prides itself on its militaristic discipline in staying on-message – but that Stepford uniformity could eventually turn voters against it.
Brendan Megraw was found this week. But where are the rest of the Disappeared?
DNA tests have positively confirmed the IRA victim’s identity.
Megraw was kidnapped and killed by the IRA in 1978.
This will be the fourth search for his remains.
The 23-year-old was abducted from his Belfast home in April 1978.
The arrest comes in the wake of Gerry Adams’ arrest and questioning by the PSNI last week.
The Dublin TD says she will not be taking over as interim leader.
The Sinn Féin president can be questioned by police until Sunday at 8pm.
Adams has reportedly been arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000, which allows police to question suspects for up to seven days without charge provided a judge agrees.
Meanwhile, the Taoiseach said that political parties in the south had nothing to do with Adams’ arrest.
Ivor Bell, 77, has already appeared in court on charges related to the crime which occurred more than 40 years ago.
The Sinn Féin leader has been reacting to this morning’s court appearance in relation to the murder of Jean McConville in 1972.
In 1972, the man was believed to be 16-years-old, from west Belfast and may have moved to England after this period.
Former IRA members say he was a key figure in the organisation. The Sinn Féin President has consistently denied such claims.
Asked about Gerry Adams’ political future today, Eamon Gilmore said that the priority now has to be to get the bodies never recovered back to their loved ones.
Adams pointed out that nine bodies have been recovered and the sites of four of the six remaining bodies have been identified as a result of work that he was involved in.
The Justice Minister stopped short of saying that he does not believe the Sinn Féin leader, but Pearse Doherty denied that Adams is a “liability”.
The daughter of the mother-of-ten says that the claims that Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams ordered the murder must be investigated.
Pearse Doherty was speaking about the claims made about Gerry Adams in a TV programme broadcast last Monday.
Finance spokesperson Michael McGrath said the Sinn Féin’s claim that it has new recordings from Anglo Irish Bank is an attempt to distract from Monday’s TV programme about The Disappeared.
The leaders of the three main political parties all joined in a request for information to be brought forward by anyone involved.
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is likely to face more questions about his alleged membership of the IRA in the wake of a programme broadcast on RTÉ and the BBC tonight.
The mother of ten was abducted, tortured and killed by the IRA in 1972. Her body was found in Louth ten years ago today.
The diaries are under embargo until 2059.
The Sinn Féin president has reiterated his denial in the face of questions in the Dáil today.
PSNI detectives investigating the kidnapping and murder of mother-of-ten Jean McConville in 1972 have fought for the tapes for a number of years.
Of the 17 people acknowledged as ‘disappeared’ since 1972, the remains of 10 have been located and returned to their families.
Columba McVeigh, from Donaghmore in Co Tyrone, is believed to have been shot dead by the Provisional IRA in 1975.
A court in Boston has ruled that transcripts of an interview with a convicted IRA bomber must be handed over to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Current indications are that the commission working to locate bodies of the Disappeared will continue its investigations.
The Law Reform Commission has suggested a number of measures aimed at helping the families of people who go missing in Ireland.
Investigators working on theory that remains of IRA victim were secreted in plot.
DNA tests have shown that remains found on an Antrim beach last month are those of Peter Wilson, who went missing 37 years ago.
Evans was 24 when he went missing while hitchhiking in Co Monaghan 31 years ago.
Police searching for the remains of Peter Wilson, who died in 1973, discover human remains.
Investigators begin to search a beach near Larne for the remains of Peter Wilson, 21, one of the Disappeared.
Remains found after sixteen-month-long search for missing man Gerard Evans.