Yes, we're a few months away from St. Patrick's Day, but in The Soup Blog world, Irish-based hilarity is a year-round thing.
Two important things to keep in mind here: (1) This is not a Fox News story, and (2) there is a leprechaun who lives in a tree in Mobile, Ala. This bit of gripping reporting comes from James, London transplant Soup chap, which makes him almost from the native land of supernatural forest-dwelling elfish beings. So he should know.