EU leaders fail to agree flight restrictions amid spike in new cases

Guidelines for the arranging of funerals for victims of the coronavirus were not designed to be “insensitive to the trauma” of loved ones, funeral directors have insisted.

The traditional practice of evening removal services in churches as part of Irish funerals is dying out.

Two of the country’s largest local authorities are to explore the option of developing Columbarium memorial walls to accommodate cremation urns and caskets in light of a shortage of grave plots.

The lives of gravediggers will be endangered by draft by-laws requiring graves to be dug to a depth of 8ft (2.4m), it was claimed yesterday.

A new family-run funeral home is to open in Cork City, the first such business to start from the ground up in several decades.

An extra set fee on funerals is being proposed to help create a regulatory body to monitor the professional conduct of funeral directors.

A NEW company is allowing people to make funeral arrangements and book coffins and hearses online.

THE recession has not just meant the death knell for the economy, it is now even threatening the funeral business.

The Irish tradition of the open casket at wakes and funerals will be unaffected by new EU laws, funeral directors were assured today.

AER LINGUS is to review its policy on transporting bodies as the mother of a young man who died in Australia revealed she spent days attempting to sort out the return of his remains.