Colm O'Regan: Can we stop the battering of our poor hedges? 

"...then there’s ignorance where people don’t know the damage they are doing. Or people who know but don’t give a shite."

Comedian and Irish Examiner columnist Colm O'Regan pictured in Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

I’d be delighted to be wrong. Please tell me it’s all perfectly done for the right reasons, and it only looks like carnage to the untrained eye.

But I don’t know. The absolute state of the place makes me feel glum.