Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre

Ms Dympna Kerr:

I am Dympna Kerr, the sister of Columba McVeigh. Columba was a young man of 19 years of age when he was disappeared. He was one of my younger brothers and the apple of my mum's eye. I can cope with the fact that Columba has died. Like everybody else, we cope with death. The part I cannot cope with is his remains are lying in a bog and have been there for the past 46 years. We do appeal after appeal for information. The right people are not listening to us. We really need help in getting it out there to the people who know the answers so that they can pass the answers on to the independent commission and let it do its job. We know the commission has a good success rate. If it gets the proper information, they will find Columba. The only thing that we want now for Columba is to give him a Christian burial and to put him in the grave beside our parents.

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