Gardai have contacted Elaine O'Hara's family over the skeletal remains found on Killakee Mountain in Dublin, the Irish Times are reporting.
But they have yet to confirm the identity of the remains found at Killakee Mountain on Friday.
The 36-year-old was last seen in Shankill on the 22nd of August 2012.
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The three major political parties will conclude their annual think-ins today.
Fine Gael, Labour and Fianna Fáil will all continue their discussions on the shaping of budget 2014. The parties will also map out their strategies for next year's European and local elections.
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A former Navy reservist who shot dead 12 people on a US naval yard before being killed in a shoot-out had been arrested twice previously for gun-related incidents, it has emerged.
In April 2010, Alexis was arrested for discharging a firearm in an apartment, according to a Fort Worth Police Department incident report.
He claimed the weapon went off accidentally when he was cleaning it.
Earlier in May 2004 he was arrested after shooting three rounds into the tires of a vehicle owned by construction workers, claiming he had been traumatised by the 9/11 attacks.
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Twenty months after it capsized off the Tuscan island of Giglio, killing 32 people, the Costa Concordia cruise ship has risen from the Mediterranean after a successful €600m salvage operation.
Fifty six giant pulleys hauled the vessel back to an upright position in a 19 hour operation, exposing a section of the white ship’s exterior that was stained by rust and algae after months under water.
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The Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education will be awarded a prestigious human rights award in Dublin this evening.
17-year-old Malala Yousafzai and American singer and civil rights leader Harry Belafonte will both be presented with Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience at a ceremony at the Mansion House.
