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Sligo cemetery model could be useful for children’s hospital team

Finally completing much-maligned project would be a true surprise

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Wed Nov 04 2026 - 06:00 • 1 MIN READ

Sir, – The ornate and detailed 4.5m high, triple plot headstone in Sligo Cemetery is a surprise to everyone? One day it isn’t there, and the next it is suddenly erected, finished and looking polished (“‘A surprise to everybody’: Family denies organising 4.5m-high memorial in Sligo Cemetery,” Ireland, November 3rd).

We should find these builders and ask them to finish the children’s hospital for us. Completing that would also be a surprise to everyone. – Yours, etc,

JAMES O’SULLIVAN,

Milltown Road,

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