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Former NI civil servant appointed joint head of Disappeared commission Rosalie Flanagan named UK lead of group charged with finding missing Troubles victims Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 15:08
Rosalie Flanagan, a former senior Northern Ireland civil servant, has been appointed to the commission charged with finding the bodies of the Disappeared. The commission was formed by the British and Irish governments in 1999 to find the bodies of people who were abducted, murdered and secretly buried during the Troubles, chiefly by the IRA. Ms Flanagan is former permanent secretary to the North’s Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure who worked at the heart of the Northern Executive. She also was a member of the independent panel set up in 2015 that examined the extent of paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland. ....
UK insurance giant Legal & General has teamed up with housing agency Clúid to invest â¬54 million in social housing projects in the Republic, which should deliver about 200 new homes. Eoin Burke-Kennedy has the details. Anger is rising in the outdoors activity industry, which includes adventure centres and businesses engaged in activities such as kayaking and surfing, that the Stateâs â¬80 million-per-week Covid Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) will only support businesses operating indoors. Mark Paul reports. Rugby player Rob Kearney and Voxpro founders Dan and Linda Kiely have invested a combined â¬250,000 in Irish start-up Snack Farm, with the former Leinster and Ireland full back also joining the company as its director of wellbeing, writes Charlie Taylor. ....