The family of a Catholic pensioner who it’s claimed was sacrificed to protect double agent Freddie Scappaticci said yesterday they believe their father was set up by another top-ranking spy in the IRA yet to be unmasked.
Forced disappearances’ are often associated with Republican paramilitaries but British forces have also covertly killed, as have all sides in Ireland s War of Independence and Civil War
The legacy of those ‘Disappeared’ by the Provisional IRA during the Troubles still features in Irish politics on both sides of the border. Twenty-five years after the Belfast Agreement the killings of Jean McConville, Captain Robert Nairac, Columba McVeigh and the 14 other people then known to have been disappeared by republican paramilitaries still make newspaper headlines.
A North Cork man has spoken of how honoured he is to be accorded a reception by the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Kieran McCarthy in recognition of his work over 40 years in helping foster reconciliation between the warring communities in Northern Ireland.