LEIGHTON GLYNN insists Ireland are ready for Australia’s biggest hits and won’t view it as an ‘affront to their manhood’ when slung to the ground.

A man in his 40s has been killed in a road accident in Co Meath this morning.

Four people died in separate accidents over the weekend - two of them in accidents involving motorcycles.

GARDAÍ are warning elderly people to avoid letting strangers into their home after a safe containing €20,000 in cash was stolen by two men posing as workers.

PROTESTERS opposed to the M3 Meath motorway route yesterday pledged to escalate their campaign.

THE current Heritage Week advertisement invites us to “look forward, look back and look around”.

THE 2006 Planning Act facilitating the fast-tracking of strategic infrastructure development should only be used with great discretion as it does not lead to open and transparent planning.

IN the run-up to the general election it’s perhaps timely to consider the appalling lack of respect for our heritage which has been continually displayed by the Government, in particular since 2002 when Martin Cullen and his successor Dick Roche held the Environment portfolio.

The draw has been made for the 2006 O'Neills Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Football Sevens tournament.

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 Taoiseach said recently that “in other countries they just get on with things. If you take a pencil and account for things like snails and archaeology, you will never do anything”.

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.

THE royal estate of Tara is Ireland’s premier national monument, encapsulating over 5,000 years of extraordinary history and mythology.

An exhibition of artworks highlighting the importance and beauty of the Hill of Tara was launched in Dublin today.

The people of Kildare and Meath badly need the benefits of green policies, Green Party leader Trevor Sargent said today as he unveiled candidates for the upcoming by-elections.

Tommy Reilly’s withdrawal leaves the FF bye-election campaign in disarray, writes Political Correspondent Fionnán Sheahan

IF it was a Traveller site, a superdump or a succession of mobile phone masts that was proposed for the Tara/ Skryne valley, you can rest assured that Navan chamber of commerce and Meath county council would protect the historical landscape of Tara.

OVER the centuries some of Ireland’s most eminent scholars - John O’Donovan, George Petrie, R.A.S. Macalister, to name but a few - have engaged with the history and archaeology of Tara, and its myth and legend.

FOURTEEN years ago, Trim native Niall Tully never thought he’d see the day — a Meath side facing Laois opposition as rank outsiders.

THE plan to run a new motorway between the hills of Tara and Skryne in Co Meath is to be challenged in the High Court unless a compromise can be reached within the next week.

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.

A HOST of international academics and historians have joined a campaign to save Ireland’s most precious heritage site from damage by motorway construction.