Search to start in remote area of border region for 'disappeared' soldier Robert Nairac

Robert Nairac in his Grenadier Guards uniform. The British army officer is believed to have been killed by the IRA. Picture: Alan Lewis

A search is set to start in a remote area of the border region for ‘disappeared’ soldier Robert Nairac.

The British army officer is believed to have been abducted by the Provisional IRA while on an undercover operation in a pub in south Armagh in 1977 and taken across the border to Flurry Bridge in Co Louth where he was killed.