Her Wait Is Over

Families of IRA victims known as the "Disappeared" abducted and murdered during the Northern Ireland "Troubles" have marched to Stormont to lay a black wreath with 9 white lilies to remember the 9 victims by.

Kieran Megraw, whose brother Brendan was murdered in 1978, said the memory of what happened has never left him.
"It is always with you, but you have to continue to live your life," he said. "We are trying to bring to the fore that we want to get the bodies back and have a grave for us to go and visit."

In 1999, the IRA offered to help locate the bodies of the nine Disappeared. Three victims were found in 1999, while one was uncovered in 2003.

Vera McVeigh the 82 year old mother of Columba McVeigh who was 17 when he was kidnapped and murdered by the IRA in 1975 in their home village of Donaghmore, County Tyrone died on Wednesday after suffering a stroke last week .

She had campaigned tirelessly for the return of her son's body but with no results.

DUP leader Ian Paisley, who met Mrs McVeigh last year and made an appeal for information on the whereabouts of her son's body, has contacted the family to pass on his condolences.
"It is with great sadness that I learned of the passing of Mrs McVeigh," he said.

Convicted ex IRA terrorist and now Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness also extended sympathy to Mrs McVeigh's family. "The McVeigh family have suffered a grave injustice."

Imagine going all those years and then dying not knowing what had become of yer child, its disgusting that the IRA would let those families suffer as much especially concidering that most of the Disappeared are their own people, Ulster Catholics.

I suspect that a lot of the bodies went through meat grinders or had been dismembered in some other way. Human life means nothing to the IRA .