Closing the gates won’t solve a grave problem

LIKE many others, I have parents and grandparents interred in Trinity Cemetery, Sligo.

Now, sadly, we are told that the cemetery gates are to be closed from six o'clock on winter evenings and eight o'clock in the summer all because of vandals and people drinking alcohol and taking drugs there.

Locking the gates is not the answer as it only prevents people from visiting the graves of their dead while those who are determined to have cider parties there will just climb a wall or the gates.