LAST Friday (June 30), was the 84th anniversary of a terrible event in Irish history — the destruction of the Public Records Office by Irregulars led by Rory O’Connor.

TARA, here I am. I have come all the way from Kerry to be with you before the vultures, with bulldozers and JCBs, open your lower belly. They are impatient to inflict the wounds.

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

I WISH to express my outrage at the Government’s plans to route the M3 through the Tara/Skryne valley. Photographs of the excavation site make it clear that the process is being carried out in a destructive and careless manner.

International academics will gather at the Hill of Tara site on Sunday to protest against the M3 motorway planned for the area.

THE recent announcement by Environment Minister Dick Roche that the tolled M3 motorway will proceed is probably one of the worst planning decisions ever made by an Irish Minister for the Environment.

The Government has reportedly given final approval to the construction of the controversial M3 motorway alongside the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland.

WITH the announcement of a €30 million bill to rid the Tara landscape of 38 archaeological sites in the way of the M3 motorway, the NRA is finally beginning to admit to the true impact of this ill-conceived development.

EXIT polls suggested that the Sinn Féin surge in the recent local elections was attributable in part to young, employed males, mainly from marginalised districts.

THE Hill of Tara constitutes the heart and soul of Ireland. Our ceremonial and mythical capital, its very name invokes the spirit and mystique of our people, and is instantly recognisable worldwide.