Families are facing the prospect of priests no longer officiating at the graves of loved ones at funerals in one Catholic diocese.

A CASH-STRAPPED Catholic diocese has received over €670,000 in a will.

THE priests of the Catholic diocese of Killaloe have been forced to pay over €340,000 from their own pockets to shore up the diocese’s finances.

A LOCAL authority is seeking ministerial approval to permit farmers to bury deceased relatives on their home soil.