{"id":159243,"date":"2025-11-02T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/159243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:16:08","slug":"families-of-disappeared-during-troubles-lay-wreath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/159243\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of Disappeared during Troubles lay wreath"},"content":{"rendered":"

The families of the Disappeared have made an appeal for information that could help them recover their loved ones.<\/p>\n

The Disappeared were a group of 17 people abducted, murdered, and secretly buried by republicans during the Troubles, mostly by the IRA.<\/p>\n

Thirteen bodies have been recovered so far, with four outstanding.<\/p>\n

The families of the Disappeared gathered at Stormont for their annual commemoration.<\/p>\n

It includes a short walk and wreath laying on the steps of Stormont.<\/p>\n

The occasion coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the disappearance of 19-year-old Columba McVeigh from Co Tyrone.<\/p>\n

A dig is taking place at present for his remains at Bragan Bog in Co Monaghan.<\/p>\n

His sister Dympna Kerr was among those at Stormont. “Columba is dead 50 years and is still lying in a bog,” she said.<\/p>\n

“That will never get easier, it can’t get any easier can it, until we find him.”<\/p>\n

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\nThe Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) is appealing for information<\/p>\n

Also there was a niece of Joe Lynskey, a former Cistercian monk who went on to join the IRA.<\/p>\n

He went missing in the summer of 1972.<\/p>\n

In November 2024 the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) exhumed a grave at Annyalla near Clontibret in a search for him.<\/a><\/p>\n

DNA testing later confirmed that remains recovered were not those of Joe Lynskey.<\/p>\n

A second search was undertaken in the same graveyard in May of this year during which further remains were recovered.<\/p>\n

They too were tested and proved not to be those of Mr Lynskey.<\/p>\n

Watch: Families of Disappeared during Troubles lay wreath<\/b><\/p>\n

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Maria Lynskey said there had now been several unsuccessful digs for her uncle, but she would have fully expected that he would have been found in Monaghan.<\/p>\n

“I had everything arranged for Joe, funeral, undertaker, priests because everybody was positive, not just myself,” she said.<\/p>\n

She said having that hope dashed by the DNA results had been very difficult.<\/p>\n

Also attending today’s commemoration was the sister of Lisa Dorrian, a young woman abducted and murdered in 2005.<\/p>\n

She had been at a party at a caravan site in Ballyhalbert, Co Down when she disappeared.<\/p>\n

She is not on the official list of the Disappeared, but has the support of the families.<\/p>\n

The remaining members of the Disappeared are Joe Lynskey, Columba McVeigh, former British soldier Robert Nairac and Seamus Maguire, who went missing in Co Armagh in 1976.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information which may help with the recovery of the bodies is asked to contact the ICLVR in confidence at +353 1 602 8655, by email at secretary@iclvr.ie or by post to ICLVR, PO BOX 10827, Dublin 2, Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The families of the Disappeared have made an appeal for information that could help them recover their loved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-159243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115481712166617740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}