Newry and Mourne Council defies opposition to open playing fields on Sundays - On This Day in 1976

August 20 1976The decision of the Newry and Mourne District Council to open all playing fields under its control for games on Sunday is bound to arouse local indignation; but in making such a decision, the Council is bowing to public demand that such facilities should be available on Sundays to those who want them.In the very long ago, the Master of Cambridge College snorted indignantly over the intrusion of a Sunday train service which, he claimed marred the scholastic repose of that university city. It was, he was heard to declare, “equally displeasing to God and myself”.Equally displeasing to many around us who resist any change from their own conception of how Sunday should be spent, and their morbid endeavours to make the day one of unconscionable gloom, is the idea that there is some