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Finglas family's fury over grave works

Thursday, 09 October 2008

A FINGLAS man has spoken of the impact that remedial works at a local cemetery have had on his mother’s grave.
John Paul Hyland and his siblings are furious that e200 worth of railings surrounding their mother’s resting place has been destroyed in St Paul’s Cemetery, Glasnevin, which is currently being revamped.
“Graves are being damaged in this so called clean-up,” Mr Hyland claimed.
“We spent a lot of money putting those railings up in an effort to prevent dogs from running over the plot.
“It’s terrible what they are doing. You just don’t know what to expect to see every time you go up.”
Mr Hyland says he feels compelled to protect his mother’s grave.
“It is a triple plot in which three relatives, including my mother, are buried in,” he said.
“My mother spent many years keeping the grave in a good condition because it was her grandmother’s grave also.
“Before she died she made me promise that if anything ever happened to her that the grave was to be looked after.
“I’ve spent so many hours up at the grave over the last few weeks just to make sure no more damage would be done to it.”
He added: “We’re still grieving for my mother and so the removal of the decoration of her grave has been a bit of a blow to us.”
Mervyn Colville, spokesperson for the Glasnevin Cemeteries Group, said that it was dealing directly with the Hyland family in relation to their issues.
“The refurbishment works are part of a major effort to restore St Paul’s back to the Victorian garden cemetery it was in the 1800s,” he told Northside People.
“It is an absolutely huge undertaking and it will be a fairly dramatic change but one which we hope people will appreciate and feel was worth it.
“We have always had rules and regulations in relation to what people are allowed to have on graves and the use of the cemetery but we never had the funding or manpower to enforce them until now.
“We’ve also curtailed the traffic from coming into the cemetery.
“We’ve given people a lot of notice in relation to what works and what changes would be taking place as part of the refurbishment and we would have hoped that people would support the project for the good it has to offer in the long-term.”

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