I always thought the shrub topiary on the roundabout near Cork Airport was the Green Party Executive jet, because it’s made from locally sourced renewable materials, probably is carbon neutral and never goes nowhere.

Paul Lee, though, says it’s an environmental improvement project supposed to welcome visitors to Cork.

Only one of us can be right.

(Actually, Paul, is reminds me of the time when I used to work in the architect’s department of a Local Authority. The rule was that on all publicly procured projects, 1% of the total budged had to be set aside for artwork - ‘one-per-cent-art’ as us local authority types called it.

Driving along a newly completely motorway with my charlatan smart-arse brother one day, he wondered what the hell the stacked pile of turf was doing near the margin. ‘That’s one-per-cent-art,’ I explained. ‘Oh yeah?’ he said, ‘and what’s the other ninety nine per cent?’)