Graves desecrated in vandalism orgy

A bewildered Sal Slattery stood in the rain by his wife’s desecrated grave yesterday and wondered what the world had come to.

Sal, 73, a retired confectioner from Clare St, was one of many family members who went to the old Mount St Lawrence cemetery in Limerick to inspect damage caused when 37 headstones were knocked in an orgy of vandalism at the weekend.

“I come up every week with flowers and holy water to place on my wife Lena’s grave. I heard there was damage and when I got to Lena’s grave and saw what had been done, I just looked up to the sky and said is there a God up there. I am baffled by this, that’s the only word I can get to describe how I feel and the hurt. This is consecrated ground. There can be no explanation for this. What can you say. There is no real answer to it.”