The top forensic investigator with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains said “we would like to think we will have some success in this coming year”.

A fifth search for one of the so-called 'Disappeared' has resumed near Bragan Bog in Co Monaghan today.

A BODY exhumed from a cemetery in Monaghan in the long-running search for a suspected teenage IRA victim who vanished in 1975 is not one of the so-called Disappeared.

A body exhumed from a cemetery in the long-running search for a teenage IRA victim murdered without trace in 1975 is not one of the so-called 'Disappeared'.

A search for the body of a 21-year-old man with special needs, murdered and secretly buried by republicans almost 40 years ago, started today in a seaside village in the North.

A painstaking search for one of the so-called Disappeared victims will be wound down in the coming days, it was revealed tonight.

Forensic investigators who today began digging bogland for the remains of a man murdered and secretly buried 30 years ago are not expecting any immediate breakthroughs.

Murdered IRA victim Danny McIlhone will finally be laid to rest with his mother and father almost 30 years after his disappearance, his family said today.

Human remains found on a remote hillside were today confirmed as those of missing IRA victim Danny McIlhone.

A confidential telephone number and address are to be set up to help locate the bodies of people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA, it was announced today.