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.

IRELAND is facing multi-million euro fines from the European Union from this autumn for a raft of environmental failures such as contaminated water.

I WONDER how many Fianna Fáil members and supporters know the origin of the party’s name.

Now that the inevitable major archaeological site has been unearthed at Lismullin in the Tara-Skryne valley, it is time the NRA/Department of the Environment re-examined the viability of the new road from Dublin-to-Navan.

ON May 17, Fred Barry, chief executive of the National Roads Authority (NRA), wrote in a national newspaper that he wished to provide a road that would improve the quality of life and safety of residents of counties Meath and Cavan.

IT comes as little surprise that after the mechanical soil-stripping in advance of motorway construction, yet more archaeological monuments have come to light in the Gabhra Valley — among them the extensive archaeological complex at Lismullin.

AT this late stage in the M3 motorway construction, the henge at Lismullin is an impressive find.

THE wanton destruction by the National Roads Authority of important sites of natural and historical heritage in the Gabhra Valley and around Lismullin and Rath Lugh near Tara is unbelievable.