Sir, Last Monday Dublin Corporation felled two mature trees on Arran Road, Drumcondra. Local residents prevented more from being destroyed. There was no consultative process beforehand, spurious reasons were offered afterwards and no alternative had been considered.
It took fifty years for those trees to grow, and fifteen minutes to fell them. Dublin Corporation. custodian of our city and its environment? - Yours, etc.,
Arran Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.