Gardaí exhume body of unidentified man found in River Lee 25 years ago

It is hoped that 'given the advances in DNA, if he is on a system somewhere, we should be able to identify him.'

Gardaí, a forensic anthropologist and an environmental health officer from the Health Service Executive attended the exhumation of the man shortly after sunrise on Tuesday morning at St Patrick’s cemetery in Bandon. File picture: Dan Linehan

The remains of an unidentified man have been exhumed in West Cork this morning in a bid to identify him 25 years after he was found in the River Lee.

Gardaí, a forensic anthropologist and an environmental health officer from the Health Service Executive attended the exhumation of the man shortly after sunrise on Tuesday morning at St Patrick’s cemetery in Bandon.