Digs continue for human remains in Wicklow

Diggers and forensic scientists are still working at the site near Blessington in Co. Wicklow where partial human remains, hoped to be those of missing Belfast man Danny McIlhone, were found earlier this week.

Digs continue for human remains in  Wicklow

Diggers and forensic scientists are still working at the site near Blessington in Co. Wicklow where partial human remains, hoped to be those of missing Belfast man Danny McIlhone, were found earlier this week.

The 19-year-old left west Belfast in 1981 after allegedly taking arms from the IRA, but was tracked down in Dublin, killed and his body buried in secret.

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