A HIGH COURT action was launched yesterday aimed at protecting the Lismullin national monument near Tara.

Minister for Environment John Gormley has signed a temporary order to preserve a prehistoric monument that campaigners say is being threatened by the M3 motorway in Co Meath.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to approve the National Roads Authority’s (NRA) plans to excavate and build over the national monument on the M3 motorway route is likely to be challenged in the High Court.

Motorway protesters will today picket a Dublin seminar attended by the National Roads Authority.