Grave doubts about cemetery

RESIDENTS in a seaside town are still boycotting their local cemetery, saying they could never rest in peace there.

The number of burials at Riverstown cemetery in Tramore, Co Waterford, is still well below anticipated, a year after the cemetery first opened.

In the past weeks, one man who was buried there last Christmas has been exhumed and buried elsewhere. His widow applied for the exhumation, saying the graveyard was too far from her home in Tramore and she was not happy with the way the graveyard looked. Now local funeral directors, James and Ursula Falconer, have added their voices to the campaign to have something done at the graveyard to make it more appealing. “It wouldn’t cost a fortune to make the graveyard look a bit more like a place of final rest,” said Mrs Falconer.