Appeal for volunteers to maintain historic cemetery

VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help a cash- strapped local authority maintain an historic cemetery which has become overgrown due to government cutbacks.

The Irish Examiner first highlighted the situation at St Finbarr’s Cemetery on Glasheen Road in Cork, in May, when the grass in places was over a foot high.

One of the worst affected areas was the plot where martyred lord mayors Terence McSwiney and Tomás MacCurtain are buried.