The mother of a teenager murdered and buried by the IRA was left mentally tortured as she tried to convince herself he had run away to marry, an inquest has heard.

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.

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

A new search for the remains of a teenager kidnapped and murdered by the IRA nearly 40 years ago has been called off.

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

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

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.

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 body exhumed from a churchyard cemetery where it was secretly buried is suspected to be a teenage IRA victim murdered 35 years ago.

A body - believed to be one of the so called IRA disappeared - has been exhumed from a church graveyard in Scottstown in Co Monaghan.

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.

The family of one of 'The Disappeared' is appealing to IRA members who know anything about the victims to come forward.

Relatives of the so-called Disappeared are planning a march at Stormont today to commemorate the lives of their loved ones on All Souls' Day.

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

The mother of an IRA murder victim whose body was never found after he was kidnapped over 30 years ago died today.

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

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.

Intimidation is forcing those with knowledge of the IRA’s abduction and murder of a Northern teenager to keep quiet, the Democratic Unionist Party leader said today.

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.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny today backed the November 24 deadline set by Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern for the return of power-sharing in the North.

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.

Two young men found dead in Co Monaghan today may have been the victims of a suicide pact.

THE IRA’s apology to families of ‘The Disappeared’, people murdered and secretly buried by the Provisionals, was rejected by victims relatives last night.

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

Gardaí have formally ended a two-week-long search of a mountainside bog near the Northern Ireland border for the remains of Columba McVeigh, who was kidnapped and murdered by the IRA as a teenager nearly 30 years ago.

Gardaí tonight formally ended a two-week-long search of a mountainside bog near the Northern Ireland border for the remains of Columba McVeigh, who was kidnapped and murdered by the IRA as a teenager nearly 30 years ago.

Gardaí were today expected to halt a two-week-long search of a mountainside bog for the remains of a man kidnapped and murdered by the IRA nearly 30 years ago.