Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy explained that the Road Service cut grass for road safety reasons and not for cosmetic reasons.

BBC: Northern Ireland Assembly

The were spotted by a member of the public walking on the grass verge alongside a road.

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They were heading down a swath of highway raised out of the wetlands, past a schizophrenic landscape of saw-grass prairies and strip malls, where the road signs warned of panthers and the billboards advertised alligator zoos and other South Florida attractions.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian