Sir, – I note Conor Fitzpatrick’s letter regarding the watering of young trees planted by the council (June 2nd).
The tree in the street in front of my house is a little further along in the council’s process: it died off a few years back and the council has cut it to a two-foot stump and abandoned it.
In my youth a school teacher would grade this level of performance a “fail”, but these days, that’s called a “partially achieves”. – Yours, etc,
CONOR KENNEDY,
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Portmarnock,
Co Dublin.
