Tough action needed to tackle vandalism

THE scourge of vandalism was visited on Callan, Co Kilkenny, a week ago when a children's playground was destroyed by thugs.

The attack was a setback to the town's efforts to better itself, though the vandals are fooling themselves if they believe they can retard the development with their behaviour.

The playground that took months of painstaking work to build, following years of lobbying by locals for such a facility, was ripped to pieces in a single act of madness.