James McGlynn
A coroner’s court heard today that the body of a man washed up off Donegal almost 30 years ago is a direct relation of well-known Letterkenny man Jim McGlynn.
The findings brings to an end a mystery which Mr McGlynn has been trying to resolve for decades.
Mr McGlynn was convinced that the body was that of his brother Noel who left the family home in 1983 never to be seen again.
A body washed up off Dunfanaghy a few days later was buried in an unmarked grave at the Holy Cross graveyard.
It was widely thought the body may have been that of an American man who had gone missing locally at the time.
However Jim McGlynn always believed it was his brother.
A DNA sample was taken from the body buried in the graveyard and this was sent to a DNA profiling laboratory in Wales for independent analysis.
Previous inquests heard descriptions of the body found and that of the missing Noel McGlynn which cast doubt on whether the body was the missing Donegal man or not.
However Mr Jim McGlynn maintained it was always that of his brother.
And today Coroner John Cannon was told today that the DNA sample matched that of Jim McGlynn mean that in all likelihood the body is that of Noel McGlynn.