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.

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.

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.