Kerry baby’s headstone smashed by vandals

GARDAÍ in Kerry are investigating an attack on a black marble stone placed at the grave of the infamous Kerry baby.

Locals who have been tending to the grave for more than 20 years yesterday spoke of their outrage after the stone was smashed by vandals. The stone had only been placed on the baby’s resting place in February.

“The stone has been smashed into smithereens and it took nothing other than a sledge hammer to do this amount of damage,” Caherciveen undertaker Tom Cournane said yesterday.