Golf club to step up security after vandals target course

During the latest incident on Friday night (April 9), mindless vandals smashed up a wooden bridge and dug a hole in the middle of the fourth green - damage that will cost around 1,000 to repair.

Belfast City Council, owners of the course on the Antrim Road, and club officials have said that security at the site will now be increased in a bid to put a stop to the ongoing attacks.

"We are asking park rangers and police to step up their patrols in relation to the City of Belfast Golf Club which, over the last three weekends, has experienced increasing vandalism by what appears to be youths drinking on the site," a council spokesperson told the Times.

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