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.

A city centre chronic alcoholic who held drugs valued at over €100,000 for a criminal he feared has been given a seven years sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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.

INFORMATION on the location of nine people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA was given to the Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains.

A garda dig in Co Monaghan for the remains of a man who disappeared 20 years ago was abandoned this morning.

A garda dig in Co Monaghan for the remains of a man who disappeared 20 years ago is due to end this evening.

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.

Gardaí have begun digging in Co Monaghan for the remains of a man who disappeared more than 20 years ago.