Trinity College Dublin to return skulls stolen from Inishbofin

Return of human remains robbed by academics in 1890 sets possible precedent for other artefacts

Trinity College Dublin is to return skulls stolen a century ago from the Irish island of Inishbofin, setting a possible precedent for other controversial human remains and artefacts held by the university.

The institution apologised on Wednesday for keeping the 13 skulls that two academic headhunters had robbed from the ruins of a medieval monastery on the island off the coast of Galway in 1890.