Are we citizens or economic units?

THE High Court ruling on Tara changes nothing. The decision to put a motorway in this sensitive and sacred landscape was wrong, is wrong and always will be wrong.

As for the Minister ignoring the clear view of Dr Wallace of the National Museum that the motorway should not go through the Tara valley, we now know for sure that the only safeguard that remained to Irish people for the protection of important heritage has gone the same way as Dúchas and the Monuments Act - down the Swanee.

We Irish have become a sad race with a very narrow view of what real progress means. Those who value something more than the economic bottom line are increasingly marginalised and seen as a nuisance.