WE the undersigned staff at NUI Galway wish to express our support for the students who have written a public letter in opposition to the recent visit of the US ambassador to the university.

A campaign group handed over a 10,000-strong petition to the Government today warning them to back away from constructing a motorway near the historic seat of the High Kings of Ireland.

TARA is under threat. The National Roads Authority continues to perpetuate the fiction that Tara is confined to the cluster of monuments on the hilltop. This is not the case.