Place: Tara Valley

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

columnists

Hypocrisy highway

THE Office of Public Works is supposedly concerned with protecting Tara from a few tents and a campfire while the Government has destroyed monuments in the Tara Valley to make way for a massive toll road.

Valley period

Much more at stake than a minister’s future

Steer clear of Tara valley and make way for world heritage park

news

Gormley signs order to protect monument near Tara

general

Hollywood star to join Tara protest

Expert: Part of Tara site saveable

A LEADING expert on Tara Valley archaeology has suggested it may still be possible to avoid the demolition of part of the historical Lismullen site being excavated to make way for the M3 motorway.

Wed, 08 Aug, 2007

Curse of Tara may have a sting in its tail

AS the shadow of desecration looms for the sacred site of Tara, the debate over the rights and wrongs of what is happening there has focused mainly on evidence from rivals within the field of archaeology, impassioned arguments by environmentalists, political posturing on all sides and weighty scholastic allusions to the site’s historical import.

Thu, 02 Aug, 2007

O Maonlai pens Tara protest song

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.

Fri, 27 Jul, 2007

Tara petition gathers 12,000 signatures

An international petition calling for the protection of archaeological sites around the Hill of Tara is due to be presented to the Irish Embassy in Brussels today.

Tue, 17 Jul, 2007

Tara campaigners to protest against motorway

Campaigners opposed to the controversial M3 motorway running through the historic Tara Valley will hold a series of demonstrations today.

Fri, 13 Jul, 2007

Burial ground razed by M3 workers, claim protesters

An ancient burial ground near the Hill of Tara in Co Meath was razed to the ground during overnight work on the controversial M3 motorway, environmentalists claimed today.

Thu, 05 Jul, 2007

What will it take to divert the Tara road?

I AM a Canadian and an Irish citizen who is astounded at the failure of the Government to protect the historic Tara landscape.

Mon, 02 Jul, 2007

NRA rejects claims of new archaeological find on M3 route

The National Roads Authority is rejecting a claim that an important archaeological find has been made at a site in the path of the new M3 motorway.

Sat, 23 Jun, 2007

EU funding used to destroy Irish heritage

I READ in a recent article that the M3 motorway being built through the Tara valley will be partly financed by European Union subsidies.

Mon, 11 Jun, 2007

Environmentalists pressure Greens on coalition talks

Environmentalists today tried to force green issues centre stage as crunch talks to form a new Government entered their final phase.

Thu, 07 Jun, 2007

Respect is a two-way road to Tara

TRANSPORT Minister Martin Cullen asks us to ‘respect the process’ in allowing the M3 to proceed unhindered.

Fri, 19 Jan, 2007

Are we citizens or economic units?

THE High Court ruling on Tara changes nothing. The decision to put a motorway in this sensitive and sacred landscape was wrong, is wrong and always will be wrong.

Fri, 10 Mar, 2006

Why are you destroying the true spirit of Ireland?

AS a former student of Celtic Ireland, an amateur photographer, and a translator of Lady Gregory’s Complete Irish Mythology into Hungarian, I wish to protest against the motorway in the Tara valley.

Mon, 25 Jul, 2005

If Tara isn’t visible from the road junction, why is it showing in the picture?

IN recent media pictures, the Hill of Tara is clearly visible from the site of the M3 Tara interchange.

Mon, 25 Jul, 2005