Clodagh Finn: There are many lessons we can learn during National Tree Week

There are 2,500 trees across 42 acres on the UCC campus.

“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” 

The words of Edna O’Brien, writer and all-round inspiration, come to mind this week not just because it’s National Tree Week but because there has never been a more urgent need to remind ourselves of that tenacity.