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though the ice has now thawed it doesn\u2019t look like the tomatoes are going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Even more puzzlingly, some of the tomatoes were still whole, while others had been sliced in half, and there were even some larger sliced salad tomatoes and sachets of ketchup amongst the display.<\/p>\n<p>Several posts about the fruit have gone viral on TikTok and X, with some suggesting the bridge is now \u2018Dublin\u2019s hottest attraction\u2019 and encouraging people to make the \u2018pilgrimage\u2019 to see it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"367\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22347422 lazyload\" alt=\"People stumped after all sorts of tomatoes on this bridge in bizarre trend\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SEI_235826333-bd33.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Some positivity amongst the confusion(Picture: Storyful)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"340\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22347415 lazyload\" alt=\"People stumped after all sorts of tomatoes on this bridge in bizarre trend\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SEI_235826340-07a5.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Ketchup and salad tomatoes have since been added (Picture: Storyful)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People have obviously embraced the new attraction, with the bridge renamed to \u2018Cherry Tomato Bridge\u2019 on Google Maps and labeled as both a shrine and a historical landmark.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s received several reviews now, many five stars, including one which read: \u2018A truly special place. There\u2019s nowhere on earth like it. You can just feel the magic.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Another said: \u2018Sometimes, there are cultural experiences that stop us in our tracks, leaving us breathless. This is one of them. Couldn\u2019t recommend it more.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrims to the site have even been adding more cherry tomatoes to the display, leaving notes including the oddly heartwarming \u2018you\u2019re looking ripe today!\u2019, and gathering around while singing That\u2019s Amore by Dean Martin.<\/p>\n<p>The entire affair has echoes of a mystery plaguing Nottinghamshire, where <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/01\/07\/plate-peeled-bananas-appears-street-every-month-no-one-knows-22311483\/\">a plate of peeled bananas has been dropped at the same spot<\/a> every month for at least a year, to the bafflement of locals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T26S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/13\/09\/94030553-0-image-a-6_1736760837762.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-01-13T09:32:22+0000″,”description”:”Why exactly the bridge on Drumcondra Road become the Cherry Tomato Bridge is unclear, but well done the citizens for keeping Dublin weird.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/01\/13\/5750624440352328451\/640x360_MP4_5750624440352328451.mp4″,”height”:360,”width”:640} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page window.addEventListener(‘metroVideo:relatedVideosCarouselLoaded’, function(data) { if (typeof(data.detail) === ‘undefined’ || […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}