THE decision to break up Dúchas and move the National Monuments Section back into the Office of Public Works is putting the chickens back in with the fox. Despite the mistakes made

FRANTIC efforts were being made last night to stop a haemorrhage of taxpayers’ money after the completion of the country’s biggest road project was stonewalled by the Supreme Court.

COMPROMISE is still possible to save both Carrickmines Castle and the South Eastern Motorway, conservationists who challenged the route of the road project have insisted.

CONSERVATIONISTS battling to save Carrickmines Castle are due back in court today to appeal a ruling allowing the removal of an ancient wall surrounding the medieval ruins.

THE campaign against the construction of a motorway near the ruins of Carrickmines Castle in South Dublin was stepped up yesterday as protesters re-erected a blockade to prevent large diggers moving onto the site.

THE National Roads Authority has denied protestors’ claims of victory after archaeologists resumed work on the controversial Carrickmines Castle site.