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

Families of victims murdered and secretly buried by the IRA are to seek new talks with the leadership of Sinn Fein, it emerged today.

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

Pressure mounted on the IRA today to come clean about its so-called “Disappeared” victims.

New plans to issue death certificates to families of people missing for more than seven years will not bring closure to relatives of the so-called Disappeared, it was claimed today.

Actor James Nesbitt is to back the campaign to find the missing bodies of IRA murder victims.

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

A mother of 10 who was abducted and shot dead by the IRA nearly 34 years ago was officially cleared today of allegations that she was an informer.

FORMER champion Barry Geraghty took the riding honours at Kilbeggan’s final meeting of 2004 yesterday, recording a chase double on Rocking Ship and Johnjoe’s Express.

GENERAL MONTCALM gets the nap to land an interesting Dolphin Club Hunters Chase at Wexford this evening.

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.

Another family is living in hope today that the gardaí will uncover the remains of a young victim of the IRA’s murderous campaign of attrition they waged almost three decades ago.

GARDAÍ will this morning resume the search at a bog in Co Monaghan for the body of a teenager abducted, murdered and secretly buried more than 30 years ago.

The opening stages of a new bid to find the body of another of the “disappeared” – people who vanished after being abducted and murdered by the IRA up to 30 years ago – proved unproductive in a bogland area of the Co Monaghan today.

A FRESH dig for the body of a teenager abducted and murdered by the IRA nearly three decades ago will begin today after a witness to the burial, who had not come forward before, decided to do so just over a month ago.

The mother of a teenager abducted and murdered by the IRA more than 20 years ago said today she hoped renewed contacts between the IRA and the Government would lead to her son’s body being recovered.

DERMOT WELD, a man with a fine record at the track over many years, can set punters on their way by landing a double at the first stage of the Tralee Festival today.

RACING at Gowran Park was abandoned after two races yesterday when the acting Stewards agreed with the jockeys' assertion that the track was unsafe.

An international team of rowers was today beginning an epic sea voyage recreating the route taken by Saint Columba in the sixth century.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s only daughter, Noelle, was released from jail today, 10 days after a judge ordered her locked up for violating terms of her court-ordered drug treatment programme.