Disappeared victim laid to rest
THE funeral has taken place of Danny McIlhone - one of the so-called disppeared whose body was discovered in Co Wicklow.
Mr McIlhone - who was from west Belfast - was abducted and murdered in 1981.
The IRA admitted responsibility for his death in 1999.
The victim's funeral took place at St Teresa's Church on the Glen Road and he was laid to rest at Milltown Cemetory.
Mr McIlhone's remains were discovered by a team working on behalf of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains last month.
The identity of the remains were confirmed last week by a Dublin coroner following a four-week investigation.
His family said on Friday they were "eternally grateful" their 27-year search had ended.
In a statement they said: "We as a family are now at peace and now have the opportunity to given our brother Danny a Christian burial and to lay him to rest with our beloved mother and father."
The IRA admitted in 1999 that it murdered and buried nine of the so-called Disappeared - Seamus Wright, Kevin McKee, Jean McConville, Columba McVeigh, Brendan Megraw, John McClory, Brian McKinney, Eamon Molloy and Mr McIlhone - in secret locations.
The bodies of five - Eamon Molloy, Brian McKinney, John McClory and Jean McConville and now Danny McIlhone - have been found.
Ulster actor James Nesbitt this month threw his weight behind the campaign for the locations of the others to be revealed.
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