The Disappeared are people from Northern Ireland believed to have been abducted, murdered and secretly buried,[1] the large majority of which occurred during the Troubles.
[4][5][6] The Provisional IRA admitted to being involved in the forced disappearance of nine of the sixteen: Eamon Molloy, Seamus Wright, Kevin McKee, Jean McConville, Columba McVeigh, Brendan Megraw, John McClory, Brian McKinney, and Danny McIlhone.
British Army officer Robert Nairac, who disappeared from South Armagh, was a Mauritius-born Roman Catholic.
In January 2010 the IRA issued a statement that Lynskey had been killed as part of an internal disciplinary process, and his body had subsequently been buried in an unmarked grave.
In November 2024, the ICVLR reported that it had carried out an exhumation of remains in an Annyalla cemetery, having received information about suspicious activity in the graveyard coinciding with the "timeframe and the location" of Lynskey's disappearance.
[14] He was abducted by the IRA in the summer of 1973, somewhere in the St James area of Belfast, killed and secretly buried at Waterfoot, County Antrim.
[23] Charles Armstrong was a 54-year-old father-of-five who went missing in Crossmaglen while walking to Mass in 1981; his car was later found in Dundalk, County Louth.