Michael Moynihan: Cutting down trees to help the environment leaves me stumped

Bishop Lucey Park will be losing some mature trees to be replaced by some semi-matures ones.

I've threatened readers in the past with my story about Joyce Kilmer, the man who wrote the poem Trees, and if there’s one thing I know from reading Elmore Leonard it’s that if you issue a threat you have to follow through with it (preferably with snappy one-liners).

But before I do ... there are a few others whose work may be more relevant this morning. Richard Forbes and J C Flanagan, to be precise, would be as baffled as any of us with one very specific aspect of modern life on Leeside.