Investigators searching for one of the IRA’s so-called ‘Disappeared’ victims have exhumed remains from a grave in County Monaghan in Northern Ireland. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

"The disappeared" are people believed to have been abducted, murdered and secretly buried during the Northern Ireland troubles.

Joe Lynskey is one of four people 'disappeared' during The Troubles in Northern Ireland whose remains have yet to be located. The ICLVR has exhumed a grave at Annyalla Cemetery in Co Monaghan on the foot of "information concerning suspicious historic activity during the 1970s" there.

Grave in the village of Annyalla in Co Monaghan exhumed by team of experts searching for ‘disappeared’ victim Joe Lynskey

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Investigators searching for Joe Lynskey, one of the IRA’s so-called disappeared, have exhumed a grave in County Monaghan.

The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) lead investigator Jon Hill speaks at Annyalla cemetery in Co Monaghan as an exhumation is underway of a grave in the search for Disappeared victim Joe Lynskey.

INVESTIGATORS ARE EXAMINING if remains found in a grave in County Monaghan are those of Joe Lynskey one of the disappeared murdered by the IRA during The Troubles. Lynskey was a former Cistercian monk from the Beechmount area of west Belfast.

Mr Lynskey, a former monk from Belfast who later joined the IRA, was abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA in 1972