Pet cremation takes off in Kerry

PARTING with a much- loved pet can be traumatic, but there are ways of easing the pain.

Pet cremation, long practised in Britain and other countries, is slowly beginning to take hold here, according to Kerry couple Eddie and Kathleen Griffin, who run what is believed to be the first such service in the Republic.

Operating for the past two years out of Cordal, near Castleisland, most of their business has been from English people or people from other countries living here.