'It's hard to believe': 25 years on, grieving Limerick family finally get to bury their son today

On the day of his funeral, Denis Walsh Jr's family ask why his remains went unidentified for a quarter of a century

Mary and Denis Walsh at their home in Caherdavin with a framed photo of their son, Denis, who went missing at the age of 23 in 1996, and who will finally be laid to rest in Mungret today.

“I’m sitting here now with the coffin, it’s 25 years since he was in the house, he’s here now.”

Those were the words of 81-year-old Denis Walsh after the remains of his son Denis Jr were exhumed from a communal grave in Galway yesterday morning.