Green TDs protest to save trees from axe

FOUR Green Party TDs chained themselves to trees in Dublin’s O’Connell Street yesterday afternoon in a last-ditch attempt to save landmark trees from the chop.

Deputy Ciarán Cuffe who took part with Dan Boyle, Eamon Ryan and party leader Trevor Sergeant said: "We believe that the cutting down of the O'Connell Street trees is an absolute scandal." They urged the public to protest at the felling to Dublin City manager John Fitzgerald.

While the Greens protest became a big media event, the garda did not intervene during the hour-long protest.