{"id":579592,"date":"2026-08-02T01:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579592\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T01:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:03:15","slug":"councillor-says-dumping-ongoing-at-north-kerry-cemetery-as-people-believe-its-bad-luck-to-take-things-from-the-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579592\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor says dumping ongoing at North Kerry cemetery as people believe it\u2019s bad luck to take things from the graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are dumping flowers at the wall of a North Kerry cemetery because they think it\u2019s bad luck to take things from a graveyard.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Fine Gael councillor Michael Foley, who was speaking at the recent Listowel Municipal District meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Both he, and Sinn F\u00e9in councillor Tom Barry raised the lack of\u00a0waste bins at Gale Cemetery to the local authority.<\/p>\n<p>They said people visiting the graveyard often want to remove old flowers and waste from the cemetery, but can\u2019t as there is no bins there.<\/p>\n<p>The council responded that its policy is not to place bins at individual burial grounds in the county.<\/p>\n<p>It encouraged all burial ground users to remove their flowers and waste from graveyards, and advised there are signs stating this at Gale Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People are dumping flowers at the wall of a North Kerry cemetery because they think it\u2019s bad luck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[244300,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-579592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bad-luck","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}