
Okay, not really, but “Ireland’s Greenest Tree” defintinely has a Mad Max feel to it (two tinkers enter, one tinker leaves). Okay, so it’s great for the environment and all (the tree itself is made from recycled metal, and is powered by a wind turbine that sits in the fairy’s usual place), but sweet feck it’s ugly. So when you’re gazing up at your city’s lovely big green Christmassy tree while doing your shopping, spare a thought for us poor Limerickians, at least until the inevitable happens and some bunch of drunken hoodlums get their hands on it. And by the way, how good for the environment was a three-hour traffic gridlock on Friday evening past, due to O’Connell St closing, while the tree was getting unveiled? As well as the giant crane and two cherry pickers it took to install it?