Family may have to exhume body over council rules

The family of a man buried in a lawn cemetery near Dingle, Co Kerry, say they will be forced to exhume his body and rebury him in Dublin — because the county council in Kerry is insisting his headstone has to be placed at his feet.

The 59-year-old father of eight, Brendan Moriarty, who lived for most of his life in Artane, in Dublin, was a native of Lispole, and had intended retiring to his native Lispole in west Kerry.

The late ESB worker was in Lispole for the weekend working on a retirement home he was building for himself and his wife Joan in February 2013 when he died suddenly.