Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney has joined Hollywood actress Charlize Theron and artist Louis le Brocquy in the campaign against the M3 motorway.

Campaigners who lost a lengthy court battle to reroute the controversial M3 motorway are seeking legal advice over reports on the archaeological heritage in the area.

Tarawatch is sending a delegation to a meeting of UNESCO in Canada to lobby on behalf on the Tara Complex.

A drawing of Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron by Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick will be auctioned in Dublin today to raise funds for a group campaigning against the route of the M3 motorway in Co Meath.

Save Tara demonstrators are today marking Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's reign as “a monument to bad planning, and unsustainable development”.

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

Activists fighting to save the Hill of Tara today launched fresh High Court action to stop the construction of the controversial M3 motorway through the ancient site.

One of the groups opposed to the route of the M3 motorway being built near the Hill of Tara in Co Meath has called for a new Environmental Impact Assessment to be carried out.

Budget 2008 opened with an olive branch for the Greens – the Minister for Finance promised no conflict between the environment and the economy.

MORE than half the population visited historical sites and monuments last year, putting it among the top four cultural activities of the Irish.

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.

Actor Stuart Townsend will take time out from Hollywood this weekend to protest against the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara, campaigners said.

Environmentalists today vowed to take their fight to Europe after An Bord Pleanala approved the controversial M3 motorway through 2000-year-old newly discovered ruins at the Hill of Tara.

Save Tara campaigners will hold a demonstration at the ancient Co Meath site today as excavation works take place at newly discovered 2,000-year old ruins.

Hothouse Flowers frontman Liam O Maonlai today released a song to rally campaigners opposed to the controversial M3 motorway route around the Hill of Tara.

FOUR of the five people who were arrested yesterday during a demonstration against the controversial M3 motorway being routed close to the historic Hill of Tara were detained in prison last night.

IRELAND is facing multi-million euro fines from the European Union from this autumn for a raft of environmental failures such as contaminated water.

Minister for the Environment John Gormley has come under further pressure to halt work on the M3 motorway.

Campaigners will today launch a petition outside Green Party headquarters demanding Minister for the Environment John Gormley re-route the controversial M3 motorway.

The National Roads Authority is rejecting a claim that an important archaeological find has been made at a site in the path of the new M3 motorway.

The new Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, is being asked to stop work on the M3 motorway after a new archaeological find.

Opponents of the plan to build the new M3 motorway alongside the Hill of Tara are to protest outside the Green Party's national meeting in Dublin today.

A GROUP of academics has called on Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny to publicly state his views on the Hill of Tara/M3 controversy.

The group lobbying for the re-routing out of the M3 motorway is hitting out at the removal of a series of ancient underground buildings from the site in the past week.

Environmental campaign groups will today protest at Dublin Castle against their exclusion from social partners discussions.

Protestors who have been camping on the Hill of Tara since the Summer Solstice on June 21, have been ordered to leave by the Office of Public Works (OPW), according to protest group TaraWatch.

Campaigners blocking the M3 motorway near Tara in Co Meath may form a political protest party to run at the next general election, it emerged today.

An environmentalist who lost his court challenge to the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara today had legal costs of up to €600,000 awarded against him.