Of late, the Latoon fairy bush once again featured in practically all the Irish national daily newspapers, this time for wholly the wrong reason. Some person on the weekend of August 9 2002 took a chainsaw to it, and very deliberately cut off every single branch, but left the trunk standing bare. What obscure point this coward (the act was done under cover of darkness, naturally) was trying to make is hard to fathom. But an old man of that locality, one with a deep knowledge of such things, as soon as I phoned him with the bad news replied "Is he still alive?". I have no way of knowing that. What I know is that the Good People do not suffer destruction of their property without response. The misguided person who did this deed may have let himself in for more than he bargained for ...

 

Fairy Bush attacked: a response