Group to create symbolic graveyard for road death victims

A COMMUNITY group is bidding to highlight the reality of carnage on our roads by building a graveyard for a day on their doorstep.

The make-shift graveyard will be filled with white crosses, one for each of the 230 plus people who have died on Ireland’s roads since the start of the year. The project was the brainchild of the Ballybeg Community Education Project on the edge of Waterford city.

Spokesman Glenn Lynch said the project was spurred by a recent front page of the Irish Examiner which featured the names and photographs of those deceased on Irish roads.