Forty-five years is a long time to wait for anything. Yet the family of Joe Lynskey, missing since 1972, has not given up on finding his body. Neither has the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR), which has carried out extensive searches for Joe since the IRA admitted to his murder in 2010.
Two years ago there was hope when first one body and then another were found in a boggy area the size of eight football fields. But those remains belonged to two other missing men, Kieran McKee and Seamus Wright. Joe, a former Cistercian monk, remains one of four of the original 16 “Disappeared” – victims of republican paramilitary groups who were killed and secretly buried – who have yet to be found.
