Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that he did not put extensive pressure on Fianna Fáil party members to select Jim Gavin for the presidential election. Mr Gavin withdrew from the race weeks after being chosen by the party after it emerged he owed a former tenant thousands of euro, which he has since repaid. Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne, the Fianna Fáil leader said that a lot of pressure has emerged from the election and he fully appreciates the devastation and disappointment within

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The families of the Disappeared have made an appeal for information that could help them recover their loved ones as they gathered for their annual commemoration at Stormont. The Disappeared were a group of 17 people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republicans during the Troubles, mostly by the IRA. One of the relatives there was Maria Lynskey, a niece of Joe Lynskey, who said she’s still “very hopeful” after remains exhumed in a search for her uncle last year turned out not to be his.