Bid to exhume remains of man buried in West Cork 'whose name is known to God alone' 

Plans are underway to have body exhumed for DNA profiling in the hope that a match will be found

A body of a man who drowned in the Lee Fields in Cork in 1999 is to be exhumed to see if a DNA match can be found.

An application has been made for a ministerial order that would allow the exhumation of an unidentified man buried in West Cork for DNA sampling.

The remains of the man are buried in a plot in Bandon’s St Patrick’s Cemetery. A gravestone reads: “Pray for the soul of a man whose name is known to God alone, interred here on the 25th of October 1999.”