Gardaí resume search for body of teen IRA victim

A SEARCH operation resumed yesterday for the remains of a teenager kidnapped and murdered by the IRA nearly 30 years ago.

Police with mechanical diggers moved in yesterday on bog land in Co Monaghan in an attempt to find the body of Columba McVeigh, who was aged 17 when he was abducted by the IRA in 1975 for allegedly being a spy.

Mr McVeigh is classified as one of Northern Ireland's "disappeared" people who vanished after being held by the IRA over a period dating back three decades.