Nothing is sacred

HAS our long-held respect for the dead and the sanctity of graves been forgotten in the rush to progress and prosperity?

It seems so following the desecration of our ancestral graves, day in and day out, in the Gabhra Valley for the construction of a motorway.

We were once renowned as a spiritual people in a blessed land, but now we’ve become shallow and obsessed with materialism.

To quote a Jamaican hero, Marcus Garvey: “A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without its roots”.

Roibeárd McElroy

1 Oak Grove

Santry

Dublin 9