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World War 2 victims identified in Mayo after 81 years

New research has made it possible to identify a number of unknown World War 2 victims buried in Mayo in 1941 when their bodies were washed ashore following the sinking of the Canadian troopship, S.S. Nerissa, off Donegal. Because of wartime secrecy, the Gardai did not have access to casualty lists from ships torpedoed off […]