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.

The family of a teenager murdered and secretly buried by the IRA almost 30 years ago gathered for his funeral in Belfast today.

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.

Human remains found on a remote hillside were today confirmed as those of missing IRA victim Danny McIlhone.

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 heartbroken mother of a teacher abducted and murdered by republicans in Paris sat by her window every day for 10 years waiting for her son to return, it was revealed today.

Diggers and forensic scientists are still working at the site near Blessington in Co. Wicklow where partial human remains, hoped to be those of missing Belfast man Danny McIlhone, were found earlier this week.

DNA TESTS on the partial remains of a man believed murdered and secretly buried by the IRA could take several weeks.

The uncovering of partial human remains in the Wicklow mountains is a grim reminder of the futility of war. The Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains has been searching the area for the body of Danny McIlhone, a 19-year-old from Belfast who was murdered by the IRA in 1981.

DNA tests on the partial remains of a man believed murdered and secretly buried by the IRA could take several weeks, it emerged today.

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

HUMAN remains have been found as part of the continuing search for IRA victims in Co Wicklow woodlands.

The remains of a man believed to have been murdered and buried by the IRA in 1981 have been discovered, security sources said 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.

The IRA was accused tonight of point scoring over the discovery of mother-of-ten Jean McConville’s body.

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.