On Saturday I walked through St Stephens Green and it struck me that this is the last Autumn for this part of the Green.
By October next year these trees will have been removed to make room for a new Metro station. Personally in post Celtic Tiger Ireland I don’t see the need for the Metro or how we can afford it both financially and spiritually, for the Green is the heart of the city center and no cost benefit analysis can measure that.
They promise to restore the Green to its former glory after the building has finished. I believe they mean well and a lot of effort is going into documenting the current layout and structure of the Green so that everything can be put back where it was but no matter how much effort they put into replacing stones and railings it still takes 200 years to fully restore a 200 year old park.