The killers of a man kidnapped and murdered 30 years ago were “playing God” with other people’s lives, the head of the Catholic church in Ireland said today.

Teams tracing the body of a man believed to have been shot and buried 30 years ago by the IRA appeared today to have found him only days after giving up the search.

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

The funeral has taken place in south Armagh of one of the so called "disappeared" - Charlie Armstrong.

The funeral of one of the so-called "disappeared" is to take place in Armagh today.

Twenty-nine years of torment will end later today for the family of a disappeared victim when they travel to Dublin to bring his body back to south Armagh.

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.

Forensic investigators are continuing to dig at isolated bogland in Co Monaghan where human remains were found last week.

THE family of a man believed to have been murdered by the IRA almost 30 years ago faces a month- long wait for confirmation that his remains have been found.

The family of a man believed to have been murdered by the IRA almost 30 years ago face a month-long wait for confirmation his remains have been found.

Forensic results are expected later today on the badly decomposed body of a man in County Monaghan.

WELL-PRESERVED human remains located in a Co Monaghan bog are believed to be those of Charlie Armstrong, one of the IRA ‘disappeared’.

The badly decomposed remains of a man have been discovered in County Monaghan.

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.

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.

Experts searching for the body of one of the IRA's victims have received a map which could provide vital clues, it was revealed today.

A former postman who became a drug dealer in order to fund his lifestyle after moving out of home has received a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin drug addict who drove the wrong way on the M50 motorway in a Garda car chase last year has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former postman who turned drug dealer in order to fund his lifestyle after moving out of home has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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

The Ireland U18 clubs side to play Georgia on Sunday, 1st April in the opening game of the U18 European Championships has been named today.

The Irish U18 club team to play Scotland in Glasgow on Sunday has been named.

Gerry Adams was today challenged to have face-to-face talks with republicans allegedly involved in the murders and secret burials of the so-called Disappeared.

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.

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 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.

The daughter of a man kidnapped by the IRA more than 20 years ago has attacked Gerry Adams for appearing on Arab TV to appeal for the return of British hostage Ken Bigley.

THE IRA faced a fresh plea yesterday to help locate the bodies of people missing since the Troubles in Northern Ireland.