Without the remains of loved ones to grieve over, families feel the Northern Ireland conflict has not ended

The British army checkpoints and patrols and watchtowers are gone, but when Geoff Knupfer surveys the fields and bogs of Ireland’s borderlands he sees a landscape still haunted by the Troubles.

The remains of people murdered and clandestinely buried by the IRA lie concealed in the soil, their locations swallowed by time and secrecy.

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