Tree cheers for Opera Festival at annual planting ceremony
The Mayor of Wexford Cllr. Tony Dempsey was joined by award-winning volunteer Selina Scott and Chief Executive David McLoughlin in planting trees at Ferrybank to celebrate the 67 th Wexford Festival Opera.
The tradition was started in 1990 by the late Festival chief Jerome Hynes and has continued very year. The first tree was formally planted by the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, with a plaque dedicated to the historic occasion.
The annual tree-planting has resulted in a small forest of trees on the Ferrybank site, commemmorating the international opera event.
This year, three trees were planted, by the Mayor, the Festival Chief Executive and the 2018 Opera Festival Volunteer of the Year Selina Scott, who were joined at the ceremony by Cllr. George Lawlor and Ger Carthy, the District Manager Angela Laffan and the Town Sergeant Kevin Sheil.