Ahern hopes victim’s remains can be found for family’s closure

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”.

He was speaking as the next stage of the search for Mr Evans’s secret grave began on isolated bogland near Hackballscross in Co Louth.

The 24-year-old from South Armagh was abducted and shot by the IRA as he hitched a lift home from a disco in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, in March 1979.