New evidence on west Cork burial of IRA's 1922 Protestant victims

The recovery of the remains of three Protestant victims of the IRA has moved a step closer, almost a century after their deaths that marked the beginning of a vicious killing spree in West Cork.

An appeal for information led to the evidence suggesting the bodies of Thomas Hornibrook, his son Samuel, and Captain Herbert Woods were removed from a bog and reburied in a Protestant churchyard.

A suggestion of Garda knowledge of the reburial sometime between their deaths in 1922 and 1948 has prompted a request for official records on behalf of the family.