First excavate, then build the road

I WISH to correct a number of errors in Donal Hickey’s article headlined ‘Fighting our future for our past’ (Irish Examiner, January 3).

To begin with the most minor: the Viking site at Woodstown was discovered not in August 2004 but in April 2003 and it hit the national headlines for the first time in early May 2004.

More importantly, the lobby group of Waterford citizens formed last September seeks merely that the site should be properly excavated and published before the road goes through.