Families demand IRA help find bodies

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

Following the discovery last Tuesday of a skeleton believed to be that of missing west Belfast woman Jean McConville, her son Michael called of the Provisionals to provide more precise information about the location of graves of other people abducted, killed and buried by the organisation.

As DNA tests continued on the remains found last week in Shelling Beach, near Carlingford in Co Louth, Mr McConville insisted other families needed fresh information so they could give their relatives a Christian burial.