There is an ongoing debate whether the remains of King Richard III should be buried in Leicester or York. The king’s remains were found underneath a car park in Leicester earlier this year.

The body of mountaineer and adventurer Ian McKeever is due to arrive back in Ireland this morning, before his funeral mass tomorrow. The 42-year-old record-holding climber died after he was struck by lightning as he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro on Wednesday last week.

New archaeological relics from the Neolithic era have surfaced in Knowth, Co Meath, reports the Meath Chronicle. The new finds were discovered at an area just southeast of the passage tomb cemetery at Brú na Binne, which has been the focus of Professor George Eogan’s study for the past few decades.

The excavation of a Victorian workhouse in Kilkenny which contained the remains of almost 1,000 people has shed new light on the way they lived their lives as well as how they died.

The excavation of a Victorian workhouse in Kilkenny which contained the remains of almost 1,000 people has shed new light on the way they lived their lives as well as how they died.

A medieval burial ground has been discovered on farmland in North County Dublin by workers laying pipes for a high voltage underground power line.

Skeletal remains with stones wedged in their mouths, dating back to eight century Ireland, were buried in this manner to stop corpses from rising from their graves to haunt the living, a new documentary suggests.

Locals in a small town in Donegal have objected to the burial of 33 whales after plans were put in place to dispose of their carcasses this week.

Guinness loving tourists are visiting the long forgotten grave of inventor, philanthropist and employer, Arthur Guinness.
 
The founder of Ireland’s national beer, Arthur Guinness, died in 1803 and was buried in small graveyard in Oughterard, Celbridge, County Kildare.
 
The sixth century graveyard is located on a small hill and is picturesquely surrounded by trees. It also holds the remains of a Round Tower and numerous tombs.
 
However, it’s not the easiest tourist attraction to find as it is not signposted. This does not seem to put off those who wish to make this strange pilgrimage and every day people from all over the world come to visit his resting place.
 
Doug Stein and Monica Iversson, from Kansas City, came on a day trip to visit Guinness’ grave. “It is kind of neat and a fun thing to do. We heard about the graveyard through the Internet so we thought. Hey! Why not! I quite like Guinness as a drink. It has been in so many movies about Ireland that you can't come here without trying it,” said Monica.
 
"I have no Irish blood in me but I do have lots of Irish beer in me,” Doug told the Irish Independent. “If you drink Guinness you got to pay your respects. For such a famous man it's kind of strange that his grave is not on any of the official tourist literature."
 
Simon Fry, another tourist from Somerset, England, came out to the graveyard by bike with a camcorder and a bottle of  Guinness as a kind of prop in his home movie. He said “I like visiting graveyards -- you never know who you are going to find buried there. It is a kind of [posthumous] celebrity spotting.”
 
It is believed this new tradition of the pilgrimage to Arthur’s grave was inspired by the Arthur’s Day celebration. Launched last the celebration was essentially a large marketing ploy. Guinness was celebrated at parties across the globe for their 250th birthday but now the celebrations are becoming an annual thing. This years celebrations will take place on September 23.
 
Killian Burns from the Guinness Brewery said “This interest will undoubtedly grow as we continue Arthur's philanthropic legacy with the Arthur Guinness Fund. We are celebrating Arthur's Day again across Ireland, Malaysia, the Caribbean and the US on September 23.”

Janinie Denomme who was ordained a Catholic priest in April last year has died of cancer. The Archdiocese of Chicago is refusing to allow her to be buried at her Catholic parish.

An Irish scientist is among a crack team of archaeologists and scientists who say they have found a burial shroud from the time of Jesus in a Jerusalem tomb.