Coventry family overturns ban on Gaelic wording on gravestone

Church court had objected to loving tribute to Margaret Keane for fear of arousing political passions'

A grieving family has won its battle to erect a gravestone with an inscription in Irish after overturning a church court ban issued on the grounds that it might arouse political passions".

The family of Margaret Keane, a Coventry dinner lady who died aged 73 in 2018, now hope a Celtic cross bearing the words In ar gcroithe go deo" - in our hearts forever" - will be in place on her grave in the grounds of St Giles church in Exhall, near Nuneaton, in time for St Patrick's Day on 17 March.