No decision made on fate of Viking colony

A LONG-AWAITED report advising how to deal with a Viking settlement discovered as part of works on a by-pass of Waterford city has been delayed until September, Environment Minister Martin Cullen admitted yesterday.

Clearly irritated by recent comments made by environment groups and politicians about the Woodstown site on the edge of his native city, Minister Cullen has appealed to people to stop “going to the radio and newspapers” and making it “impossible” for him to make a balanced decision.

“Do not play into the hands of those who will take extreme views on this for we will end up with nothing,” said the Minister, who recently had a heated exchange about the Viking site with a representative of An Taisce on RTÉ’s Prime Time programme.