Dublin’s Cherry Tomato Bridge: Council to clean up TikTok trend spot

DCC will now be cleaning and inspecting the site daily due to passers-by leaving tomatoes, ketchup, tomato soup, tins of tomatoes, candles and other items on the Drumcondra Bridge.

A spokesperson from DCC told the Irish Independent: “Dublin City Council are aware of food being presented on Drumcondra bridge and will be cleaning and inspecting the site daily.

“It is asked that food is not discarded and wasted in this manner.”

Their statement comes as the spot became internet-famous over the last week, after a TikTok user posted a photo of some cherry tomatoes that someone had littered on the bridge wall. They had frozen in last week’s cold weather.

Both locals and tourists are now making the tongue-in-cheek pilgrimage to Dublin’s “Cherry Tomato Bridge” – or, as it’s called on Google Maps, “the Shrine of the Sacred Cherry Tomatoes of Drumcondra”.

Within the first 24 hours, hundreds of people had visited the bridge to take videos and photos for their social media…