Tag Archives: The Disappeared

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Joe Lynskey was a former monk who later joined the IRA. He was abducted in Belfast in 1972 and became one of The Disappeared.

The IRA admitted ‘executing’ Mr Lynskey  and the dig at a farm (top) at Coghalstown, Co Meath began last year.

Human remains discovered during search of bogland for Joe Lynskey (Newstalk)

(BBC)

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Following the lead of the taoiseach’s tactic of deflecting Sinn Féin questions with mentions of Jean McConville.

Tánaiste Joan Burton raised the discovery of the body of Brendan Megraw in response to Mary Lou McDonald’s question regarding the IMMA/John McNulty debacle.

“In the day that’s in it, when we have the body of a young man finally being found for his distraught family, the action of the Taoiseach of this country taking responsibility in relation to something where he has acknowledged there was definite wrong, is in marked contrast to the absence of your own leader in relation to a very young man who has spent a very long time in a lonely grave.”

Classy.

Tánaiste hits out over Megraw when challenged on McNulty (Marie O’Halloran, Irish Times)