To suggest hacking down hedges is just an act of eco vandalism

Your article on overgrown hedges (Irish Examiner, July 16) dismayed me, not to say angered me.

The heritage of the Irish countryside is its beautiful hedges with yellow, white and red blooms and fruit throughout the year.

Orders from up-on-high Brussels allowed hedges to be cut back to the ridiculously low height of 1m. What can grow in such a hedge and provide for bees, insects, birds and human beings I wonde?