Gardaí are to resume the search for the remains of six people who were shot by the IRA over 20 years ago and buried secretly in the Republic. The Commission for the Location of Victims Remains says it believes sufficient additional information has been received to justify the move.
News of the decision to resume the search came this afternoon from two commissioners, former Tánaiste John Wilson and Sir Kenneth Bloomfield. They said they had told families of the disappeared that they believed sufficient additional information had been received to justify the resumption of limited searches at five sites in the Republic where its thought the bodies of six IRA victims are buried.
The sites are at Templetown Beach, Carlingford, County Louth, Bragan, near Emyvale in Co Monaghan, Coghallstown near Navan and Oristown near Kells, in Co Meath and Ballynultagh near Lacken, Blessingtown, Co Wicklow.
The commission said the Garda Commissioner, Pat Byrne, had indicated his support and discussions on the timing and extent of the searches were continuing. Last July, Gardaí, acting on information from the commission, recovered the remains of three other victims.
