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24/10/2003
IRA apologises over 'disappeared'
The IRA has apologised to the families of the so-called 'disappeared' for the suffering it has caused them.
In a statement released today, the republican group said the re-examination of certain information over the past few months had enabled a more specific search of areas thought to contain the bodies of victims.
Such information, it said, had helped uncover Belfast woman, Jean McConville whose body was found on a Co Louth beach in August.
Police on Tuesday confirmed that the body found on Shilling Hill beach had been that of Mrs McConville who was abducted from her Belfast home in 1972 after coming to the aid of a British soldier who had been shot outside her front door.
A post mortem examination and DNA testing confirmed the identity of the Belfast woman.
In 1999, the IRA offered to help uncover the bodies of those that went missing. Today the organisation said it had acted in good faith and would do all it could to bring closure for the other families.
The bodies of Eamon Molloy, John McClory and Brian McKinney have also been found since the IRA stepped in to help in 1999, however, the rest of the information the paramilitary group gave has not been precise enough to find the others.
(MB)
In a statement released today, the republican group said the re-examination of certain information over the past few months had enabled a more specific search of areas thought to contain the bodies of victims.
Such information, it said, had helped uncover Belfast woman, Jean McConville whose body was found on a Co Louth beach in August.
Police on Tuesday confirmed that the body found on Shilling Hill beach had been that of Mrs McConville who was abducted from her Belfast home in 1972 after coming to the aid of a British soldier who had been shot outside her front door.
A post mortem examination and DNA testing confirmed the identity of the Belfast woman.
In 1999, the IRA offered to help uncover the bodies of those that went missing. Today the organisation said it had acted in good faith and would do all it could to bring closure for the other families.
The bodies of Eamon Molloy, John McClory and Brian McKinney have also been found since the IRA stepped in to help in 1999, however, the rest of the information the paramilitary group gave has not been precise enough to find the others.
(MB)
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