How Cork City Council can move on from its robotrees fiasco

The local authority should apologise for wasting taxpayers' money — and learn to listen to experts when considering matters beyond its own expertise, writes John Sodeau

While it is generally forward-looking to experiment and try new things, 'City Trees' had already been shown to be a total failure at cleansing air of particulates before Cork bought the technology. Picture: Larry Cummins

There has been a lot of misinformation and misconception thrown into the public domain recently regarding the ‘death of the robotrees’.

It’s time to put the record straight. But where to begin?