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Date Posted: 17:26:06 12/28/08 Sun GMT
Author: Lynn
Subject: Remains are of 80's IRA victim (Phila. Enquirer)



Posted on Sat, Dec. 20, 2008
In the World

Remains are of '80s IRA victim

DUBLIN, Ireland - Human remains found in the hills south of Dublin were confirmed yesterday to be those of a Belfast teenager killed by the outlawed Irish Republican Army decades ago.

Relatives of Danny McIlhone - a 19-year-old abducted from Belfast in 1981 - welcomed the finding from a joint British-Irish commission that has spent nine years hunting for grave sites of IRA victims. The commission said DNA testing of the remains, chiefly a decayed foot found last month, had positively identified McIlhone.

In 1999, as part of Northern Ireland's peace process, the IRA admitted killing nine people who had vanished, and gave information to the commission on each victim's approximate burial place. Before the discovery of the McIlhone remains, years of extensive digging had turned up only two other bodies.

- AP

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