Sir, - Recently a high wall and adjoining shrubbery separating Our Lady's School Templeogue, Dublin, from Bushy Park has been destroyed by developers of a new housing estate, presumably with the approval of the local authority.
This destruction of the park boundary, which had been the habitat of song thrushes, finches, blue tits, wrens and blackbirds for the last 100 or more years, transforms a bosky haven into bare fields overlooked by six-storey modern apartment blocks whose price will be enhanced by a green fields vista
.I am accustomed to greed inspired destruction by developers and the blind eye of local authorities, but the apathy of the public, who have not to my knowledge voiced outrage, is sadly incomprehensible.
It is too late to save the shrubbery but not to seek an explanation and perhaps make it difficult for those responsible or their like to destroy without compunction a public amenity. - Yours, etc.,
Tony O'Dwyer, Dublin 14.