An eerie silence descended on the church yard, interrupted only by the bagpiper’s lonesome drone of Patrick’s Kavanagh’s ‘Raglan Road’ and a newborn baby’s cry, as five hearses crept into Bride Street Church in the heart of Wexford town.

Residents opposed to an emergency halting site at the end of their estate for survivors of a blaze that killed 10 people met again yesterday with council chiefs but failed to reach a resolution.

A majority should not have a veto over where Travellers live, Pavee Point said yesterday.