Person: Joe Fenwick

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Steer clear of Tara valley and make way for world heritage park

I WISH to ask those people who have previously favoured routing the proposed M3 through the Tara valley to reconsider their position and support a re-route of the motorway and the establishment of a Tara Valley World Heritage Park, as set forth by the drafters of the Meath masterplan.

Tara saga — go see for yourself

Minister should change direction

‘Peasant mentality’ drives all over our heritage

M3 tolls only small part of the price we pay

World heritage sites: a tale of two Taras

Stop this motorway madness

WEDNESDAY last was not only a dark day for Tara, but a dark day for Irish culture.

Sat, 14 May, 2005

Royal Tara extends well beyond the hill

WE strongly reject the implication that we have ‘hoodwinked’ the public into thinking that the proposed road goes over the Hill of Tara, contained in recent testimony to the Oireachtas Committee on Transport.

Sat, 26 Feb, 2005

Reality bypassed on the road to Tara

OVER the centuries some of Ireland’s most eminent scholars - John O’Donovan, George Petrie, R.A.S. Macalister, to name but a few - have engaged with the history and archaeology of Tara, and its myth and legend.

Mon, 20 Dec, 2004

Squandermania on the road to nowhere

WHILE Claire O’Sullivan (‘On the Road to Nowhere,’ Irish Examiner, November 1) paints an unsettling picture of gross mismanagement coupled with the squandering of billions of Irish taxpayers’ money in the ‘interest’ of the nation’s infrastructure, it is all too easy to overlook an equally disturbing hidden cost — the ‘collateral’ damage to our unique and vulnerable cultural heritage.

Sat, 06 Nov, 2004