IN the light of the hullabaloo surrounding Tara and M3, perhaps it’s perhaps timely to examine some of Taoiseach’s remarks in the past regarding the whole issue of heritage in this country.

IT comes as no surprise that the seven-year struggle for people to be heard on the Tara/M3 catastrophe should culminate in arrests and imprisonment. It is indeed a sorry day for democracy when a society fails so miserably to listen to its own citizens; when people find the only option left is physically to resist the destruction of that which they care about.