This morning.
Skerries, County Dublin.
Via Skerries:
Tree cutting in process at the moment on Church Street – One has just gone outside Nealons, one is about to go beside the Coast and three or four more will go later today. The problem is they are breaking up the pavement. Local sculptor Shane Holland has been trying to stop them. He is asking for the Council to fix the pavements instead. He has chained his van to the one outside his house…
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sheer ignorance.
What is the logic behind it?
Also, it seems you can build a garden shed without people objecting, yet trees can be cut down willy-nilly all over the place?
*can’t (edit button gone)
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/tipperary-council-defends-decision-to-cut-down-nine-trees-in-fethard-1.3783948
Cutting down perfectly healthy trees which will interfere with the 5G signal which will fry all our brains including plants and animals.
Meanwhile our environment is going to cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of euro in fines because we cannot cut our emissions
Seems Leo cannot see the woods for the trees
Balbriggan: 5 seats
Tony Murphy (Ind) – 1,881 (elected count 1)
Joe O’Brien (Green Party) – 1,552 (elected count 7)
Seána Ó’Rodaigh (Labour Party) – 1,302 (elected count 9)
Tom O’Leary (Fine Gael) – 1,215 (elected count 9)
Gráinne Maguire (Ind) – 1,161 (elected count 9)
I’ll bet they won’t even bother removing the stumps and won’t replant smaller trees.
I don’t see much damage around that stump.
they could just as easily put a surround around the trees instead of this vandalism.
That is because the curb story is a crock. You know the real reason its because a few SUV and Merc driving tossers were moaning about that sticky stuff that ends up on their windscreen and paintwork whenever they park on the street. That, and some property owners chance their arm to get ongoing compo from the council because the trees block out a certain amount of daylight. So the council figures is cheaper to give the trees the chop. Nice trees too. Greedy boomers are behind this. Its always the boomers. The worst generation ever, the sooner there all dead the better.
BOOMERS!!!
A proper tree surgeon could shape those trees so that there would be no light issues or even droppings onto the cars below.
As commented above – vandalism.
Eh, I’m a boomer and I don’t agree with cutting them down – or wishing my generation dead, if it’s all the same to you…
But hey, let’s not let reason or logic get in the way of a good divisive rant….
You’re not in his league Jim he’s one in a Million
Stomach churning stupidity!
I like Shane’s pizazz. He sounds like my kinda guy.
he’s an amateur
come back to us when he chains HIMSELF to the tree
Bertie would do it, wouldn’t he?
he absolutely would – all that pent-up pizzazz
You’re making me out to be a lovesick fool when I’m actually a lovesick averagely intelligent person…..
You’ll love this then!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LwHBw0EXe8&list=PLXIuFI7uUIVDhTB3DphKjm4FYpf1t4yxD&index=69
:)
Maybe less pizazz and just not a lot going through the workshop right now.
Skerries will be far less without those trees. May the person who made this decision be plagued by it for the rest of their (hopefully short) career.
May the person who made this decision get Dutch Elm Disease.
+a plague of ticks
the ticks that makes you allergic to meat. No worse punishment.
I live a few meters from this street and wish I was there to help the chap who’s trying to stop them. Awful.
A few Meters? Are you an ant? H…How did you get on the internet? oh God!! ITS HAPPENING!!!
He’s got high hopes
Whoops there goes another Skerries street plant.
I lolled. Well actually it was a gentle exhalation of mirth. But still. Thanks.
All you need is one person to sue and say that they council were negligent in allowing the trees to grow and they will be gone. They should probably just stick up a sign saying “Danger Trees Ahead”
Another Marie Bailey so.
Bar, numb and Bailey?
trees are inherently dangerous, someone could hang a swing off them
I’m thinking if that were actually true there wouldn;t be a tree left syanding in any town or city in the country by now, so no, this latest surge in chopping is new, and probably literally evil insurance companies being literally evil and Councils being heedless amoral petty tyrannies.
While personally I’ve have no doubt this is the response to Insurance premiums and directions from internal Finance and Legal depts
Tis worth remembering the devastation fallen and storm damaged trees can cause
Storm Ophelia left a fatality because of a tree
And I narrowly escaped a falling tree myself in Crumlin
Even in me own backyard there are two gorgeous trees that are at the mercy of a tree surgeon
If either of them go in the next storm
I’m fecked
And so are my neighbours
Just saying
If they were performing actual risk assessments by actual experts before chopping them I do think people would object so much. You cut down the trees you’re going to cause damage from the loss of shelter, drainage, soil stability, air filtration, carbin sequestration, biodiversity.
‘don’t’ think people would object so much
The lad I’ve brought in is going to monitor them over the next 12 months is so
They’re currently dealing with killing off the ivy
Which he said will take about a year
And another crew is due in to reduce the canopies
Which should all help
Wait n’see I suppose
But if they pose any risk at all they’ll have to go
This is the right approach, though. You’ll only have them brought down if you have to.
A tree surgeon meaning a REAL tree surgeon never cuts trees down if they can at all help it.
I had one recently and it was like talking to a hairdresser. ‘I shape the top, layer the middle and clean the bottom up for light’ he said. I was expecting him to say ‘and sure I’ll give it a perm and a few highlights.’
Ah yes, release all that locked in carbon back into the atmosphere.
I’m struggling to give a crap anymore.
“The council told residents the removals were in line with its tree policy which states that trees within five metres of a light standard must go.”
It’s encouraging to see so many give a fuppence about a few trees.
Practicality and laws aside, I can’t help thinking someone somewhere said, ” Ok well now thatthe ‘green wave’ is coming because of climate change(it’s actually a crisis – Thanks Dick Chaney).. So you better cut down all those trees we had scheduled right away this instant.”
:-J
Stop them now .get tree surgeon out now and just trim then it’s terrible to look at does lovely trees gone and how long will the tree stumps be left there for someone to fall over them
Beautifully put.
Can’t believe I lived long enough for tree-hugging to go mainstrem.
Ah here
Give Nidgie one’ah them vouchers
Why the tree hatred? We depend on them. Just leave them be and mend the pavement as needed. This tree chopping is happening all over Ireland and FAR too frequently with either no reason or a pathetic one given. Just stop it and leave them to grow in peace will you?