Derek McCabe stood amid fallen trees this Wednesday, some uprooted, others “snapped like matchsticks”, the chairman of the Irish Forest Owners (IFO) group said. Only a few of the conifers were still standing in what had been a well-established spruce plantation just two weeks earlier in Mountungent, Co Cavan. Machinery had pushed some of the trunks to one side along a power line freshly repaired by ESB crews.  Along the road, we passed forest parcels that were partially or entirely flattened, while others were largely intact. McCabe said his own forestry, a short drive away where he also owns a…

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