McDowell stands over refusal to exhume baby

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell insisted yesterday that exhuming the body of a baby girl from a communal grave in Dublin 33 years after her death would have had huge implications for other parents.

The unidentified infant, known only as Noleen, was laid to rest in the Little Angels plot in Glasnevin Cemetery along with hundreds of other babies.

She had been found stabbed to death in a laneway in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, in 1973.