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Galway family welcome plans to create Irish register of deaths abroad
Galway bay fm newsroom – A Galway family say plans to create a register of Irish people who die overseas means their son is no longer a statistic in a foreign land.
The Irish Times reports a law to amend 2004 legislation can now be drafted after a memo on the civil registration bill was approved.
There is no legal requirement to register foreign deaths here in Ireland as death certificates issued by the civil authorities are normally sufficient for administrative purposes.
21 year old Keith O’ Reilly of Merlin Park died in a diving accident in Chicago in July 2009.
His mother Yvonne is welcoming today’s news