Dig for Provo victim to begin
A SEARCH for a man abducted and killed by the IRA in 1972 is to be relaunched.
Joe Lynskey was a former Cistercian monk who later joined the Provisionals.
Preparatory work led by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains will start today to clear a small area of trees in Oristown, Co Meath, in the Republic of Ireland, with a dig beginning within days.
Mr Lynskey was kidnapped in west Belfast in 1972 and became known as one of the “Disappeared” – 16 people abducted and secretly buried by republicans in the 1970s and 1980s. Of the 16, the remains of 13 have been recovered.