Over the course of the Troubles, republicans ‘disappeared’ 17 people – murdering them, and secretly burying them.
Those victims included a soldier, a teacher and a former monk.
But the Provisional IRA and the INLA were not the first republicans, or indeed combatants in Ireland, to use this method. It started long before the Troubles.
About 170 people were ‘disappeared’ in conflicts across the twentieth century, north and south of the border.
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc is an historian who ‘knows where the bodies are’. He has spent over a decade researching the fate of ‘the disappeared’ and how this phenomenon came about in Ireland.
He joined Ciarán Dunbar.
’Michael Collins disappeared far more people than Martin McGuinness’ comrades in the Provisional IRA’
