Heart is gladdened by taste of Páirc life

The Irish immigrants who settled in Syracuse, New York’s Tipperary Hill and named it after the county they’d left behind were a notoriously sentimental crowd.

So much so that they had a habit of smashing a set of traffic lights at a busy junction, demanding precedence for the colour green.

They won a battle with City Hall and now Tipp Hill is the only area in the US (and maybe the world) which has a set of upside down traffic lights, green on top.