Cemetery footpaths used for graves

The dead are being laid to rest under footpaths in a Kerry cemetery.

An undertaker has trenchantly criticised the county council for continuing delays in providing a new cemetery in Killarney — where only a handful of burial spaces remain.

Mary O’Shea, of O’Shea’s funeral directors in the town, said the council was acting “shamefully and causing undue distress” to bereaved families.