Tara campaigners vow to fight on in Europe

Environmentalists today vowed to take their fight to Europe after An Bord Pleanala approved the controversial M3 motorway through 2000-year-old newly discovered ruins at the Hill of Tara.

The planning board’s green light means the prehistoric Lismullen site, thought to be a ceremonial enclosure, will be probed by archaeologists before being razed to make way for the multi-million euro project.