The Sinn Féin leader has called on whoever knows the location of Columba McVeigh's remains in Monaghan to make the information known. Mary Lou McDonald was responding to comments made by a person calling himself a "republican" who contacted the Belfast Telegraph newspaper to say the person who dug the missing man's grave in Bragan Bog was a current member of Sinn Féin.
20-year-old Columba McVeigh from County Tyrone was abducted and murdered by the Provisional IRA in 1975. He is one of the four remaining so-called 'disappeared' whose remains have not been located. Mr McVeigh's brother, Oliver, told the Joe Finnegan Show that, in his opinion, the ball is now "at the feet of republicans" and the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, or ICLVR.
The republican caller to the Belfast Telegraph said the man who dug Columba McVeigh's grave could bring authorities "within five metres squared" of the area "or else he's lying", previous digs at Bragan Bog were "deliberately misleading", and he is still a member of Sinn Féin. Sinn Féin President, Mary Lou McDonald, urged anyone with information to bring it to ICLVR:
