In November 1977, ten members of the IRA, in the middle of (of course) a dark, wet and squally night, dug up Stagg’s body. They removed it by digging a tunnel from a nearby grave and burrowing their way under the concrete shield. They carried it to the Republican plot and, with the help of a Catholic priest, reburied it beside Gaughan’s grave. It was like a daring prison break, except for a corpse.
