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Joe Lynskey and Robert Nairac: 'Bodies will never be found’, IRA source admits
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Joe Lynskey, one of the Disappeared, was murdered by his IRA colleagues in 1972 and his body secretly buried. Remains recently found in a County Monaghan grave were hoped to belong to him, but the DNA says no. The finding leaves a new mystery - who was the extra body in the plot, and if it wasn’t Joe Lynskey - then whose remains are they? What are republican sources saying about the prospects of finding him now?
Ciarán Dunbar is joined by the Belfast Telegraph’s security correspondent, Allison Morris.
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