Glasnevin Trust — the largest provider of funeral services in Ireland — has agreed to a raft of changes to how it sells burial plots, headstones and headstone foundations to ensure transparency for consumers.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell insisted today that exhuming the body of a baby girl from a communal grave in Dublin 33 years after her death would have created huge implications for other parents.

A request by a coroner to exhume the body of a baby girl from a communal grave 33 years after her death was tonight turned down by the Justice Minister.

A youth who pleaded guilty to destroying Victorian gravestone monuments dating from 1835 at Glasnevin Cemetery to the value of €100,000 has been remanded on continuing bail until sentencing on April 18, 2005.

OVER €80,000 of damage has been caused to headstones and machinery in an act of mindless vandalism at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.