Bertie goes his own way on the M3

IN the light of the hullabaloo surrounding Tara and M3, perhaps it’s perhaps timely to examine some of Taoiseach’s remarks in the past regarding the whole issue of heritage in this country.

While in opposition, Bertie Ahern stated nobly: “It is imperative that no more of our irreplaceable national heritage be destroyed because of political inertia”. (1996).

While Taoiseach he’s on record as being put out about major road projects being held up “because of swans, snails and the occasional person hanging out of a tree” and, in specific reference to Tara, he made the asinine observation, in November 2004, that he’d stood on the route and “couldn’t even see the hill from there”.