Updated / Tuesday, 16 Mar 2021 18:16 The accused was before Cork District Court today A gravedigger in his 60s has appeared at Cork District Court on criminal damage charges following an incident in a graveyard in Ballincollig where 16 graves were vandalised. When the 16 charges of criminal damage of graves were put to him, Pat McSweeney of Marian Terrace in Grange, Douglas, Cork, replied to each of the charges "I can't argue with that." The charges relate to the vandalism of sixteen graves on Friday night/Saturday morning at the Church of St Mary and St John's graveyard in Ballincollig. Some of the headstones were smashed or pushed to the ground while graffiti was daubed on others.