Are you Cúl and Green or Cac and Brown?
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Fair play to all you G-A-A tree-huggers out there who are doing your bit burning cow dung in your wood burners, thumbing to matches and sittin’ foundered in the cold at home in case you generate a bit of carbon. If you left a yeti-sized carbon footprint going to Australia then shame on you.
Sez the lads at Croker: “The Cúl Green website has been live for just over two months and thanks to the tremendous support of the fans there have been over 10,000 pledges made resulting in a direct saving of over 1,200 tonnes of carbon so far. Added to the energy saving initiatives within Croke Park this means we are well on our way to making Croke Park carbon neutral. The most popular pledges to date have been switching off lights when not in the room, taking the train to Croke Park instead of driving and taking a bus to work instead of the car.”
(How you switch lights off when you’re not in the room we’ll leave for another day but obviously it’s a good thing to be at!)
The PR blurb tells us that Dublin is top of the Cúl Green table having saved 212.252 tonnes of carbon. Statisticians project that had the Dubs not got hockeyed by Tyrone, the extra pints of Guinness they sank toegther with the attendant amount of rear-end emissions from those last few pre-throw in pints, would have landed them in the relegation position. Fear not ye Dubs and rest happy knowing that getting knocked out of the Championship meant ye did yer bit for the Environment. Plus, the rest of us didn’t have to listen to all that hot air from the Hill. Come on ye (Green) Boys in Blue.
Surprisingly Cork are high up the table in third place. Early projections had the Rebels in a precarious state, especially with all the trees that were chopped so they could issue all those press statements. It is thought that the Player Strike worked in favour of Cork’s green credentials as they didn’t have to drive to training thereby reducing emissions. Seán Óg of course was exempted because, as a living saint, he jogs to training anyway. Tyrone lost out because of the long drive to Dublin from the bushes, however by not shaving it is understood the players reduced their O2 consumption considerably. Still, we can’t win everything.
At this early stagethen, if anyone gives a f***, Dublin leads the County Challenge, followed closely by Limerick.
Position County Total Carbon Saved
1 Dublin 212.252 tonnes
2 Limerick 172.101 tonnes
3 Cork 114.545 tonnes
4 Waterford 97.426 tonnes
5 Kerry 95.002 tonnes
6 Kilkenny 55.433 tonnes
7 Wexford 45.168 tonnes
8 Galway 40.309 tonnes
9 Mayo 40.136 tonnes
10 Tyrone 36.434 tonnes
