THE highest ecclesiastical court of the Church of England has found a diocese's ban on an Irish inscription on a gravestone was "direct discrimination" on basis of race. The family of Margaret ...

The family of Irish woman Margaret Keane has welcomed a judgment that found "discrimination on basis of Irish race" after they were refused permission to include an Irish language phrase on her ...

A family in Coventry has won an appeal to have their mother's gravestone marked with an Irish inscription. The appeal was before the Church of England's court - the Arches Court of Canterbury - on ...

A sitting of the Court of Arches of the Church of England in Canterbury has ruled a woman should be allowed have an Irish language inscription on her gravestone without an English translation.

He and the family wanted Margaret's memorial to reflect what was important to her, and them, and the community she served: A Celtic Cross, the GAA logo, and the inscription in Irish. On St ...

The Coventry Irish Society has launched the Margaret Keane Irish Language School in tribute to the Co Meath woman whose Irish language gravestone inscription sparked a court battle. Keane, who was ...

and a memorial inscription in Irish Gaelic. But a recent ruling from a judge with the Diocese of Coventry in England stated that the inscription can only go on the headstone if it is accompanied ...

LABOUR MPs have pledged to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the family of a woman denied an Irish inscription on her gravestone - with one offering help `in parliament and in the streets'.

He authorised a memorial which included a translation ... However, the use of the Irish inscription was a sticking point, and Mrs Newey appealed to the Church's consistory court.

The Church of England has ruled that an Irish-language inscription on a Coventry gravestone must have a translation with it to ensure the phrase is not mistaken as being a political statement.

met as music students at the BIMM Institute in Dublin A Coventry woman who won a legal battle to erect a gravestone with an inscription in Irish, to honour her late mother, has described Fontaines ...

The judge ruled: “Not only would the message of the inscription not ... is clearly right that the memorial to Mrs. Keane should record and celebrate her Irish heritage and her dedicated ...