A “Disappeared” IRA victim abducted and murdered during the Troubles touched lives with his love and friendship, funeral mourners have been told.

One of the IRA’s “Disappeared” victims will be laid to rest beside his parents today, 36 years after he was abducted and murdered.

Provisional searches for another of the IRA's "Disappeared" victims have started in the same rural bog where weeks ago another body was found.

The body of one of the IRA’s Disappeared victims has been formally identified weeks after being dug out of a bog.

The body of one of the IRA’s Disappeared victims has been formally identified weeks after being dug out of a bog in Co Meath.

The body of a man believed to be one of the IRA’s Disappeared victims was moved from a bog in Co Meath yesterday as family members looked on.

The Arts Minister has refused to reveal who within Fine Gael asked her to consider John McNulty for a place on the IMMA board.

The Head of the Investigation team searching for the so-called 'Disappeared' is urging anyone with any information - no matter how small - to contact the commission.

A body has been found in a bog in Co Meath where a man abducted and murdered was believed to have been secretly buried by the IRA.

A body has been found on a bog in Co. Meath where a man abducted and murdered was believed to have been secretly buried by the IRA.

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

One person may hold vital clues to several families’ decades-long quest to find the bodies of loved ones abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA.

ON Saturday it will be 20 years since Ireland, north and south, heaved a collective sigh of relief as the IRA declared its ceasefire, followed two months later by loyalist paramilitaries.

One person may hold vital clues to several families’ decades-long quest to find the bodies of loved ones abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA.

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.

The search for one of the IRA’s so-called Disappeared victims has resumed in a vast bog near the Irish border.

The top investigator searching for the seven final victims of the co-called Disappeared appealed tonight for the public’s help to bring closure to families.

HUMAN remains discovered in July were those of Charlie Armstrong, believed to have been abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1981.

Human remains discovered in July were those of a man believed to have been abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1981, it was confirmed today.

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has said “the best way” for the family of IRA disappeared victim Gerry Evans to have closure, “is if his remains are found”.

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.

New legislation to help relatives of those murdered and dumped by the IRA will come into force on November 9, it was revealed today.

The family of a man thought to be among those abducted, shot and secretly buried by republicans during the Troubles today appealed for the return of his body.

Regular contact between the IRA and forensic investigators is guiding searches for people abducted, murdered and secretly buried during the North’s Troubles, it emerged tonight.

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.

Investigators who uncovered the partial remains of a suspected IRA victim on a remote Wicklow hillside are using their ground-breaking methods at five other potential burial sites, it was revealed tonight.

Families of IRA victims abducted and murdered during the conflict in the North are to march at Stormont tomorrow.

PRIESTS are to make new appeals at Masses across Ireland for help in finding the remains of all nine secretly buried IRA murder victims.

The family of a teenager abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA hoped their meeting with Ian Paisley today would help secure the return of his body and those of the rest of the North's disappeared.

REPUBLICANS must do more to end the suffering of families whose loved ones mysteriously vanished during Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the SDLP said yesterday.

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.

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley is to meet the mother of Columba McVeigh, one of a number of people abducted by the IRA whose body has not been found.

THE British and Irish Governments are to appoint a forensic expert to help locate the bodies of people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA, British Northern Secretary Peter Hain confirmed yesterday.

The Irish and British governments are looking at a number of candidates to appoint a forensic expert to help locate the bodies of people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA, Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain confirmed today.

THE British and Irish Governments were yesterday urged to do more to help locate the burial sites of people abducted and murdered by the IRA.

The British and Irish Governments were today urged to do more to help locate the burial sites of people abducted and murdered by the IRA during the Troubles.

Relatives of alleged informers murdered and secretly buried by the IRA tonight rejected an apology from the Provisionals for their suffering.

Gardaí are today continuing an excavation operation in a bid to find the body of a man thought to have been killed by the IRA more than 20 years ago.