Stop this motorway madness

WEDNESDAY last was not only a dark day for Tara, but a dark day for Irish culture.

Ireland’s premier landscape, an icon of our nationhood, is about to suffer an act of vandalism that will see a four-lane motorway, a large intersection and undoubted secondary developments obliterate its landscape. All in the name of progress.

The façade of valuing our heritage has crumbled. The truth is that the decision taken by the Government reveals the mockery of our official portrayal to the world that we pride our culture and heritage dearly.