A candlelit protest will take place in Deansgrange Cemetery at 7pm on Friday evening to oppose proposed plans to run a cycle route through the graveyard.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council submitted the proposal to create enhanced cycling infrastructure through the Deansgrange Cycle Route as part of the area's Active School Travel programme. Opposition to the plan has mounted in recent weeks with over 3,000 people signing a petition to stop the proposal.
The proposed plans would see a new entrance to the cemetery created and the partial removal of a surrounding wall. Susan McGarvey, 45, created the petition last month and said the plan would "leave the graveyard completely open and not private". Ms McGarvey's son Callum died aged 12 in 2017 and is buried in the cemetery.
