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THE TEAM SEARCHING for people killed and secretly buried during The Troubles are about to break ground on a site in Co. Meath as they search for Joe Lynskey.
Lynskey was a former Cistercian monk from the Beechmount area of west Belfast. He went missing during the summer of 1972 and his remains have never been recovered.
The IRA took responsibility for his death in 2010 with a spokesperson confirming he was killed and buried in an unmarked grave.
The team from The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) have narrowed down the search to a 15 acre site in Coghalstown and will today begin searching beneath the surface.
Lead forensic scientist and investigator Geoff Knupfer says the team “have good reason to believe that we are in the right area”.
“While the terrain is not as rough as at Oristown where we found Brendan Megraw in October last we still have a difficult and complex task ahead of us,” he said.
A body found in in a Meath bog in October were identified as Megraw. The Belfast man was then buried in November, 36 years after he went missing.
Today’s development in the search for Joe Lynskey comes after a ‘cadaver dog’, trained to detect signs of human remains, and geophysicists investigated the site in Coghalstown last year.
But Knupfer has stressed that the recovery of the body is not guaranteed and that there are still some people who could help but have not yet done so.
“There are people who have information who have not come to the ICLVR even though there is a guarantee of complete confidentiality. It would be quite wrong to think that because we have started the search for Joe Lynskey that there is no need for someone who knows something of the events in Coghalstown in 1972 to give us that information.”
Of the 16 people ‘Disappeared’, the Provisional IRA admitted responsibility for 13. The INLA took responsibility for one and no attribution has been given to the remaining two.
To date the remains of ten of the sixteen Disappeared victims have been recovered.
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My gun safe is under my bed. If an intruder was in my house I’d pull the trigger first and ask questions after. He has absolutely no business there only to rob or do my family harm.
As the saying goes it’s better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
Your CPO signed off on having your gun safe under your bed instead of attached to a structural wall as required by law?
I think confronting such a scumbag would depend more on how many of them there were than simple courage.
The only reason cavan people are the most likely to stop inturders is because they are to scabby to lose anything
"not to become complacent"?
It’s my home not a prison, I am not going to live my life in fear of something that has very little chance of ever happening.
Besides, I would mangle anyone who tried it :)
You haven’t got enough "stuff"…
Thank god my gun safe is in my room, i keep it loaded and the door locked so as to give me time to get it and point at the door. Anyone that enters my home illegally is leaving in a bodybag regardless of whether their armed or not. No apologies to lefts will be made.
Got my gun under my bed ready in case of burglars, too right, I’d protect myself and family, shoot to kill I would
A lot of break ins in my area in the last few months. all of them in the morning when people are at work and houses are empty. most of these scumbags are looking for a nice handy rob. the best deterrent is a good savage dog.
I’m not married.
All I have is pepper.
Option A
Restained a burglar and call the guards.
For starters I would probably have to wait for about an hour or more for them to come. The guards finally arrive, take him to the station, maybe accuse me of assault. Let him out within a day informing him he will recieve a summons.
Meanwhile hes angry and wants to get revenge. Maybe come back and harm my family when I’m not there.
Option B
Restain him, Kill him
Had he cleaned the stain before you restained him, before killing him? :)
the worse thing about these polls is that they show scumbags there is a 10% chance of being injured if they rob houses in Clare, Dublin or kildare. must encourage my neighbors to answer that question with yeah I’d kill them if they even step on to my land… and beat them up if they throw papers in the street.:) if they know there is a good chance of not getting caught or not getting killed then the odds are in their favor.
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