LIKE most people who have a cultural affinity to the Irish landscape, I was sickened by Dick Roche’s unscrupulous act in signing an 11th hour order for work to resume on the M3 near the Hill of Tara.

IT is a national disgrace that the 2,500-year-old graveyard in Collierstown, near the Hill of Tara, has been destroyed by the NRA.

IN some parts of Ireland, over 60% of all national monuments have been destroyed - 30-40% in the past 150 years alone.