Stay updated with breaking news from Thomas John Gallagher. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
'Forced disappearances’ are often associated with Republican paramilitaries but British forces have also covertly killed, as have all sides in Ireland's War of Independence and Civil War
The legacy of those ‘Disappeared’ by the Provisional IRA during the Troubles still features in Irish politics on both sides of the border. Twenty-five years after the Belfast Agreement the killings of Jean McConville, Captain Robert Nairac, Columba McVeigh and the 14 other people then known to have been disappeared by republican paramilitaries still make newspaper headlines.