Councillors want cemetery memorial bylaws to be suspended

There has been a call to suspend the implementation of new cemetery bylaws in County Cork until councillors are given the opportunity to debate them again amid fears they will cause considerable distress to some families.

Fine Gael councillor Deirdre Forde said she is concerned that Cork County Council intends to enforce the bylaws in October.

They would involve it telling families that they will have to remove kerbed ‘shrines’ to loved ones in newly designated ‘lawned cemeteries’ and that, if they do not, council workers will do the work themselves.