The anguished family of a teenager kidnapped and killed by the IRA yesterday have made a fresh appeal for information on the eve of the 40th anniversary of his disappearance.

Tributes have been paid to the top archeologist who helped bring closure to the anguished families of the North’s Disappeared.

The brother of a newly-wed murdered and secretly buried by the IRA has expressed hope of finally finding his body ahead of fresh searches commencing in remote bogland today.

The brother of a newly wed murdered and secretly buried by the IRA has expressed hope of finally finding his body ahead of fresh searches commencing in remote bogland today.

Fresh searches for one of the IRA’s so-called Disappeared victims are to start in Meath within days, it has been confirmed.