Air India Disaster 30th Anniversary: 30-year vigil for mother and daughter victims of Air India

Only a handful of people know the existence of the only burial plot in Ireland of two of the Air India disaster victims, and one man has lovingly tended it for 30 years.

Air India Disaster 30th Anniversary: 30-year vigil for mother and daughter victims of Air India

Finbarr Archer had been tasked in June 1985 of documenting details of many of the 131 bodies recovered after 329 people died in the jumbo jet explosion.

A 24-year-old, at the time, he had been working for a Cork city undertaker when the bombing occurred.

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