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ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche recently launched a study of important battle sites and vowed to amend the National Monuments Act to protect them, saying: “Battlefields … can increase our knowledge and understanding of momentous events in Irish history.”

THE Taoiseach said recently that “in other countries they just get on with things. If you take a pencil and account for things like snails and archaeology, you will never do anything”.