 Karlin Lillington -- Green TD Eamon Ryan was one of three Greens that chained themselves to the 100+ year old plane trees down Dublin's main thoroughfare, O'Connell Street.
"In its infinite wisdom, Dublin Corporation has decided to chop down ALL the trees and replace them with smaller lime trees. Apparently the big old planes won't fit in with some trendoid landscape artiste's 'vision' of what the grand old street should look like. Dubliners are furious about this, going by the anger expressed on radio programmes in the past few days. Dublin has few enough trees as it is, and old trees are even rarer, much less trees that had a front row seat to the 1916 Uprising and Pearse's reading of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic from the front of the General Post Office on O'Connell Street."
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