A son of IRA murder victim Jean McConville has passed away.
James Brown (Jim) McConville was one of the surviving children of Ms McConville – the Belfast mother of ten who was abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1972.
Mr McConville, of Alexandra Park Avenue in north Belfast, passed away peacefully in hospital on Monday, March 23, surrounded by his family.
He is survived by his sons James, Nathan, Curtis and L.Jay according to a death notice.
His remains will be removed from his home on Saturday at 12.30pm to Holy Family Church, Newington Avenue, Belfast, for 1.00pm Requiem Mass.
Jim is the sixth of Ms McConville’s children to die and the fifth to pass away in recent years.
Jim’s brother Thomas ‘Tucker’ McConville died in 2024, his brother Archie in October 2021, his sister Agnes in November 2018, his brother Billy in July 2017 and his sister Ann died in 1992.
Dr Sandra Peake, chief executive of the WAVE Trauma Centre, said: “The thoughts and prayers of everyone at WAVE are with the McConville family on the passing of Jim.
“Jim is the sixth of Arthur and Jean McConville’s children to die, five of them before they were 60 years old. The pain that has been inflicted on the McConville family is almost beyond comprehension.”