Bertie's chance to carve a place in history

IN the week leading up the celebration of the 1916 Rising, the Taoiseach urges us to begin "a great national conversation" on what it means to be Irish 90 years later.

Surely being Irish does not include the building of a motorway through Tara's landscape?

I doubt that those who died 90 years ago intended that their political descendants would drive this project ahead - now considered by many as a sick joke gone terribly wrong.

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