Gardaí and representatives from the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains have begun a process of revisiting six excavation sites to reaffirm the original locations pinpointed by the IRA. The Gardaí are searching for the remains of eight people who were killed by the IRA during the seventies.
The Commission first made contact with the gardaí last Saturday, regarding sites in Louth, Monaghan, Meath and Wicklow. So far nothing has been found at the six sites. The chairman of the Commission, former Tánaiste John Wilson, said his group is still trying to ensure that the best possible information is available. He added that the Commission is remaining in contact with intermediaries and the Gardaí on the matter. This morning, Garda searches resumed at a number of locations.
Last night the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, said the IRA may have given too little factual evidence on the location of the bodies of the disappeared. Mrs Robinson said she hoped it would be possible to provide more factual material and she called on the IRA and anyone who could help speed up the process to do so.
Yesterday IRA sources said the organisation had made every attempt to establish the exact locations of the bodies of the missing victims.
