The ancient Bru na Boinne site around Newgrange may lose its World Heritage status if the proposed M2 motorway goes ahead, it was claimed today.

America’s influential Smithsonian Institute has included the Hill of Tara in a list of must-see endangered sites, it was revealed today.

THE Smarter Travel sustainable transport policy document published by Transport Minister Noel Dempsey (February 5) takes the public for fools.

ACTIVISTS will accuse the State’s roads building body today of a staggering €16 billion overspend — more than the spiralling national debt.

The proposed M3 motorway will lose money, according to a financial analysis included today in TaraWatch's pre-Budgetary submission.

CAMPAIGNERS protested outside the Green Party offices in Dublin, accusing the junior coalition partners of “selling out” on their environmental principles since going into Government.

Tara campaigners are to give money away to members of the public at noon tomorrow, outside the new Department of Finance offices on Baggot Street.

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.

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.

Bono stated that the M3 motorway at Tara is “a bad idea” when he arrived at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin today, according to campaigners.

Campaigners opposed to the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara today vowed to launch another High Court action to halt the road works.

Hundreds of environmentalists took to Dublin’s streets today, demanding a halt to construction of the controversial M3 motorway through the ancient Hill of Tara.

THE Fianna Fáil MEP Liam Aylward (Letters, September 7) tried to “set the record straight as to the exact role of the European Commission concerning the M3 motorway”.

Environmentalists today mounted a fresh legal challenge to force the state to halt work on a multi-million euro motorway through the ancient Hill of Tara.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to approve the National Roads Authority’s (NRA) plans to excavate and build over the national monument on the M3 motorway route is likely to be challenged in the High Court.

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.

NEWLY discovered 2,000-year-old ruins at the ancient Hill of Tara site must be fully preserved because of their unique size and character, according to a US academic.

Newly discovered 2000-year-old ruins at the ancient Hill of Tara must be fully preserved because of their unique size and character, a US academic today said.

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.

RENOWNED artist 90-year-old Louis le Brocquy joined 1,000 marchers in Dublin seeking to reroute a motorway from the historic Hill of Tara.

Tara Watch is presenting a petition of 50,000 signatures to the Department of the Environment as part of their dispute over 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.

Protesters opposed to the M3 motorway being routed near the Hill of Tara will today stage a demonstration at Custom House in Dublin.

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

Fresh calls were made today for the Hill of Tara to be protected during the building of the controversial M3 motorway.

The site of a massive ancient pagan temple unearthed at one of Europe’s most archaeologically significant sites will be buried under a controversial motorway, campaigners warned tonight.

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

The path was today cleared for construction of the controversial M3 motorway close to the historic Hill of Tara after a long running Supreme Court challenge was dropped.

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.

The proposed M3 motorway in Co Meath is to face another legal challenge.

The Government is coming under fire for failing to express an interest in purchasing memorabilia from the Easter Rising that is due to go on auction today.

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

ENVIRONMENTALIST Vincent Salafia was ordered by the High Court yesterday to pay a legal costs bill, which could be over €600,000, arising from his unsuccessful challenge to the proposed routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara.

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.

An environmentalist who lost his court challenge to the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara today appealed for his costs to be granted.

Government plans to fast-track planning for major infrastructure schemes are designed to blame the public for delays, it was claimed today.

THE proposed route of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara was chosen after extensive public consultation involving some four thousand people and culminating in a 28-day oral hearing by An Bord Pleanála, the High Court was told yesterday.

The High Court has begun hearing a legal challenge to the Government's plan to build the proposed M3 motorway alongside the Hill of Tara in Co Meath.

A legal challenge to the Government's plans to build the proposed M3 motorway alongside the Hill of Tara is due to get underway at the High Court today.