The commission established by the British and Irish governments to aid the discovery of the "disappeared" is to decide today whether to continue digging at four locations listed by the IRA as the burial places of people it killed. The commission is jointly headed by former Tanaiste Mr John Wilson and the former head of the civil service in Northern Ireland, Sir Kenneth Bloomfield.
Gardai halted excavations at two sites in Co Meath and Co Wicklow on Friday after extensive searches had uncovered no signs of any bodies. They plan to review the position in the other areas identified by the IRA, in Louth, Monaghan and Meath, as burial sites of eight of its victims.
The only body found to date was that of Belfast man Eamonn Molloy. His body was left in a coffin above ground in a Co Louth cemetery near the Border late last month.