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Thu 08 Aug 2003McConville family hope remains are those of motherThe family of Mrs Jean McConville, the missing Belfast woman, said last night they hoped that the remains of a woman's body discovered on a beach in Co Louth yesterday were those of their mother.The remains were discovered in a shallow, foot-deep grave at Shelling Hill beach around lunchtime by a man out walking with children.