Ceremony at plot remembers stillborn babies

IF anyone wondered what the smiles of 50,000 angels looked like, they had only to stare up at the sky, President Mary McAleese declared yesterday.

The wonderful summer day was as close as anyone could get to realising how pleased the babies buried at the Old Angels Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery now felt at being remembered in such a very special way, she said.

The President was addressing the hundreds of parents, relatives and friends who had gathered for the inauguration and blessing of the newly restored plot in the Dublin cemetery where babies were laid to rest until the 1970s.