“Today I appeal again to the conscience of anyone who can help ... so that the agonising wait of the remaining families can be shortened and their loved ones can at last have a Christian burial.”

“Even at this late stage, the remaining families can experience the consolation of being able to offer a Christian burial to their loved ones”.

“Sadly there may be people in the area that have information which would help in bringing closure to this sorry saga" - Bishop Michael Smith.

Funeral Mass in Belfast of Brendan Megraw - the 23-year-old who was abducted from his home in April 1978.

Priest appeals to anybody with information on the missing or the disappeared to come forward.

Victims endured "horror and barbarity" Bishop Smith states at Co Meath prayer ceremony.