Heritage groups rally to save historic site

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

One of the leading campaigners, Julitta Clancy, was conferred last week with an honorary MBE by Princess Anne for her work as a founder member of the Meath Peace Group.

Others include archaeologist and writer Máiread Carew; Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards of Oxford University; Professor Bart Jaski from the University of Utrecht and Professor Joseph Nagy of the University of California.