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.

It is a condition for EU member states that receive subsidies that they undertake not to destroy any heritage in the course of using EU funding.

If the M3 motorway proceeds on its planned route, it will destroy the recently discovered archaeological site at Lismullen. This matter was raised in the European Parliament in May by Irish MEP Proinsias De Rossa and British MEP Roger Helmer.