Could be. The article at the link mentioned allegations of ‘dark forces’ in the new police service there, the old RUC. So maybe it’s revenge from those still in position there now that the IRA has been defanged while the British Army is still in full tooth, rather than the stated goal of going forward and leaving the past in the past, belief in the sincerity of which is what convinced the Republicans to disarm. But if I were one of her 10 children, I wouldn’t have forgotten about it either. I can’t really speculate though, not knowing much about this.
...or so the IRA commies would have you believe that the cops are actually old RUC types.
I would really advise that you read up on this atrocity. It is certainly up there with the murder of Lord Mountbatten. In fact, it is worse. Mountbatten, at least, was a political and royal figure who knew the dangers of Northern Ireland’s problems. Jean McConville was a mother of ten who had the audacity to offer comfort to a dying British soldier. Given her sad life story, unlike Mountbatten, I wonder if she ever had a happy day in her life.
The British Army hasn’t been an issue there for years; they wanted to leave after The Troubles flared up (since Northern Ireland had transformed from an industrial area to a population on the dole), but Protestants threatened to bring the bombings to England if they were abandoned in the North.
Northern Ireland has been a drag on the British economy for decades.