A family had to exhume the remains of a lovedone after a blunder by Wexford Borough Council on a graveyard map more than 20 years ago.

A nationwide campaign is being launched today to set up a national database of missing persons and to establish the identity of body parts retrieved off west and south east coasts.

THE remains of an unidentified woman found dead on a beach 12 years ago are to be exhumed, it emerged last night.

The remains of an unidentified woman found dead on beach 12 years ago are to be exhumed, it emerged tonight.

THE Justice Department yesterday refused to be drawn on a request to exhume an unidentified grave in Wexford believed to be the burial place of missing woman Priscilla Clarke.