Jean's memorial smashed
Monday May 17 2004
VANDALS have smashed a memorial to Jean McConville at a beach in Co Louth.
The memorial and grotto to the murdered Belfast woman, on Templetown beach at Carlingford Lough, was broken into several pieces.
It is not known when the attack took place but it is believed to have happened sometime over the weekend.
Her family erected the marble plaque in 2001 as the search continued for her remains. Mrs McConville was last seen at her Belfast home in 1972. The family wrote on the plaque "In loving memory of our mother Jean McConville taken from us by the IRA in December 1972 and believed to be buried on this beach."
