Geoff Knupfer

And some over the years have said, yes, I'm happy to talk to the commission.

Others haven't.

But I think it's clear that from the year dot, from our involvement, and I talk about the commission staff, from 2005, 2006 onwards, nobody has ever been arrested or prosecuted or convicted, for that matter, on information that's been passed to the commission.

So it's a very small, very tight-knit group, and the information we receive is absolutely copper-bottom privilege.

You know, it doesn't go anywhere.

And it is used wholly and solely to recover and repatriate, no questions asked.

So I think the answer to your question is, yeah, we're trusted more now than we ever were perhaps in the early days where, you know, a bunch of English cops, ex-cops, what do we tell them, you know?

No.

No, I mean, the commission work continues to this day and everybody who's involved in it is totally committed to trying to recover the outstanding cases, trying to resolve the outstanding cases.

That work goes on.

And I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Yeah, the first body we recovered was a guy called Danny McElhone.

And he was killed at Ballinolta, just down the road here in County Wirklow.

And his remains have been buried on a hillside just above the tributary of the Liffey.

So...

Yeah.

I think that's true, yeah.

I think it's not appropriate to go into great detail.

It's safe to say that this guy was kept as a prisoner down here and I think he escaped and that's why he was killed here.

He wouldn't necessarily have been killed here.