Úna Ní Bhroin: 'Christy Moore sang an ode to feminism for us around the campfire'

Helen O’Callaghan speaks to the Glen of the Downs protester about a TG4 programme documenting their eco campaign to save the trees

Úna Ní Bhroin

Úna Ní Bhroin was learning how to scale trees with a climbing harness, trying to foothold herself all the way up a rope, when journalist Nell McCafferty came looking for an interview.

The Clondalkin girl was 23 at the time, one of a small band of eco-warriors who’d started living in the trees in the Glen of the Downs, in a bid to stop Wicklow County Council felling native trees as part of their plan to expand the N11.