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TaraWatch has launched a new petition drive, to appeal to the United Nations to intervene in the Tara situation. Our goal is to reach 1,000,000 signatures, and to submit the petition to the UN Headquarters in New York City. If you are interested in joining this effort, please join TaraWatch USA and email us at info@tarawatch.org

UN MUST SAVE TARA PETITION TEXT

TO: THE UNITED NATIONS

The Hill of Tara, Ireland’s premier national monument and internationally renowned cultural icon, is being desecrated by construction of the M3 motorway. The works are in breach of international law, which protects this site for humanity, and the United Nations must intervene now.  Lying 30 miles north of Dublin, it was Ireland’s capital for millennia; where over 142 kings were crowned, dating back to 3,000 BC. Since then, hundreds of monuments were built on the slopes and in the surrounding landscape. Today, the cultural landscape is defined by the remains of a number of defensive Iron Age hillforts which surround the Hill, lying approximately 2-3 miles away.

THE M3 MOTORWAY

The M3 motorway is being built by the Irish Government, in public private partnership with Siac and Ferrovial construction companies, through the centre of this landscape, and a 50 acre interchange is being built 1,000 metres from the summit. Already, dozens of archaeological sites within the landscape have been excavated and demolished, and construction is due to be completed in 2010.

CELEBRITY SUPPORT FOR THE TARAWATCH CAMPAIGN

The campaign to save Tara, and re-route the M3 motorway has reached a critical point. Celebrities such as Bono, Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Gabriel Byrne, Colm Toibin , Louis le Brocquy and Jim Fitzpatrick, supported by hundreds of international experts in Irish history, archaeology and mythology have spoken out against the M3 route. National surveys show that the vast majority of Irish people want Tara protected, and made into a UNESCO site.

Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney said:

If ever there was a place that deserved to be preserved in the name of the dead generations from pre-historic times up to historic times up to completely recently – it was Tara. I think it literally desecrates an area – I mean the word means to de-sacralise and for centuries the Tara landscape and the Tara sites have been regarded as part of the sacred ground.

TARA ON ENDANGERED LISTS

The World Monuments Fund, Smithsonian Institution and Sacred Sites International have placed Tara on endangered sites list, and others such as the International Celtic Congress, the Archaeological Institute of America, the Landmarks Foundation, the City of Chicago and the Massachusetts Archaeological Society have issued statements condemning the M3 route.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION v. IRELAND, LAWSUIT

The European Commission is currently taking a lawsuit against Ireland in the European Court of Justice against Ireland, for illegally demolishing the Lismullin national monument, which was discovered in the pathway of the M3 in 2007, after being voted on of the Top Ten Most Important Discoveries in the world in 2007 by Archaeology magazine. The Irish authorities refused to heed the Commission’s demand that demolition be halted, and construction is proceeding despite the EU legal action.

DELAY OF UNESCO NOMINATION FOR TARA

The Minister for the Environment, John Gormley,  has delayed nomination of the Hill of Tara to become a UNESCO site, until the M3 motorway is complete. UNESCO has stated that it cannot intervene, until Ireland completes the nomination, which was due to take place at the World Heritage Committee Meeting in Seville, in June 2009.

BREACHES OF UN LAW

It is clear that the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage protects all sites of outstanding universal value, even if they are not on the World Heritage List. Other UN agreements, such as the UN Global Compact, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, both human rights Covenants, and the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples also require that Tara receive the highest level of protection possible.

APPEAL TO UN TO INTERVENE

The only body that can now intervene and save the Hill of Tara is the United Nations.  This petition is directed to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, and asks that you intervene in the Tara crisis, and begin a problem-solving initiative, which will protect Tara and allow the M3 to be completed.

The UN must intervene now and enforce UN law, on behalf of the people of Ireland, the Irish Diaspora, and both the global community.

Signed,

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[Please click here to sign]

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Wood you believe it? Stonehenge find at Tara

Irish Independent – Saturday April 11 2009

SCIENTISTS have unearthed what appears to be a mammoth wooden version of the famous Stonehenge monument at the Hill of Tara. In a revealing new RTE documentary, many theories and insights into the country’s prehistoric past and 150,000 ancient monuments are unveiled and explained. For the first time, people will be able to view a computer-generated recreation of what archaeologists believe was a major wooden structure — a version of Britain’s Stonehenge — at the ancient seat of the Irish high kings in the Hill of Tara in Co Meath.  Archaeologist Joe Fenwick revealed a LiDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging) laser beam had been used to scan the ground surface to create a three-dimensional map, which revealed more than 30 monuments around Tara.

Using another technique — described as taking an X-ray through the hillside — archaeologists discovered the huge monument, a ditch stretching six metres wide and three metres deep in the bedrock. The ditch, circling the Mound of the Hostages passage tomb, separated the outside world from the ceremonial centre of Tara. It was believed the ancient architects had also surrounded the ditch with a massive wooden structure on each side — a version of Stonehenge — on a large scale. Its sheer size meant a whole forest would have had to be cleared to build it.

“In scale, it is comparable, for example, to Croke Park’s pitch. The Hill of Tara had enormous ritual significance over the course of 5,000-6,000 years, so it’s not surprising that you get monuments of the scale of the ditch pit circle,” said Mr Fenwick, from the Department of Archaeology, NUI Galway. Cutting-edge technology is helping to provide a new insight into the lives of our ancestors, according to the documentary makers behind ‘Secrets of the Stones’.

Civilisation

It shows Ireland’s first civilisation began 7,000 years ago, they withstood major climatic changes and voyaged throughout Europe, returning with new religions and mementos. An RTE spokesman said the broadcaster, along with the Department of Education, would be sending two free copies of the book accompanying the series to all second-level schools in the country. The first part of the ‘Secrets of the Stones’ will be shown on RTE One at 6.30pm on Easter Monday.

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The Hill of Tara – Round Table – Meeting One

Be a part of the solution, not the problem!

Lectures and panel discussion, hosted by

The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin and TaraWatch

Jonathan Swift Theatre – Trinity College Dublin

Tues, 24 March 2009 – 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm.

Admission free – All welcome

This will be Meeting One of the The Hill of Tara Round Table, a problem-solving initiative, aimed at finding a mutually beneficial solution to the Hill of Tara / M3 motorway problem.

There will be a focus on the UNESCO World Heritage Site nomination of the Hill of Tara, as well as the public consultation currently being conducted by the Department of the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, on Ireland’s List of Tentative UNESCO Sites.

There will also be lectures on the law of the human right to culture and the protection of cultural heritage sites in Ireland, in order to stimulate debate on the value of Tara, and cultural sites.

All stakeholders, such a heritage and environmental groups, community groups, historians and archaeologists, political parties and others interested in the Hill of Tara / M3 issue, are encouraged to participate in what will be a very challenging process – to find a solution for the M3 problem at Tara.

Speakers

- Sean Goggins (NUI Galway, Irish Centre for Human Rights) on human right to culture;

- Meghan Abigail (NUI Galway/University of Texas Law School) on UNESCO and protecting cultural heritage;

- Sue Redican on the UNESCO nomination of the Great Blasket Islands;

- Vincent Salafia, TaraWatch – The UNESCO nomination of the Hill of Tara and other sites.

More information

Phone  3530871323365
Email:  info@tarawatch.org

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READ TARAWATCH NOMINATION DOCUMENT

Tara proposed as Unesco World Heritage Site

The Irish Times – Breaking News – Friday, 29 January 2009

The Hill of Tara is among a number of sites which have been nominated for inclusion on the country’s list of possible United Nation world heritage sites. Campaigners against the route of the M3 motorway in Co Meath have joined with heritage groups in submitting proposals to an advisory group set up by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley, to review the list of Irish sites.  The existing tentative nomination list for world heritage sites dates back to 1992 and includes Killarney National Park, the Burren and Clonmacnoise.  Deadlines for submissions for inclusion on the revised list close today.

Vincent Salafia of TaraWatch said:  “We have nominated Tara to be a World Heritage Site, but only on condition that the M3 motorway is re-routed first.”   “It would be a breach of the World Heritage Convention for Unesco to approve Tara, with the M3 going through the site,” he said.   Tarawatch and the Campaign to Save Tara have said the Hill of Tara complex qualifies for World Heritage status as a natural and cultural landscape of outstanding universal value, due to its unique cultural significance, and the extent of the surviving remains. Campaigners believe that if they can have the site designated as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) site, then changes would have to be made to the route of the controversial motorway, which runs close to the Hill.

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Irish Times – Breaking News: Tara proposed as Unesco world heritage site

Today, TaraWatch submitted its nomination form to the Expert Advisory Panel, set up by the Minister for the Environment, to review Ireland’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites.  Tara is nominated, but only on condition that the M3 is re-routed first. The completed nomination can be downloaded here, in Word Format.

The curse of Tara by Hadani Ditmars

Dispatches – Canadian Broadcasting Compny - Radio One

17 September 2007

In Ireland, as everyone knows, they love their history. But not as much as a good commute, apparently.

One of the Republic’s most revered and mystical sites lies between Dubliners and their new four-lane highway.

And despite the clamor from poets and pop stars, they’re now breaking ground and breaking hearts — cutting through the ancient burial site known as Tara.

Dispatches contributor Hadani Ditmars has been recording the poet’s cries.

Listen to Hadani’s dispatch

Hothouse Flowers there, to sing us out of Hadani’s story. And they’re not the only musicians intervening on behalf of Tara.

The harp players of Ireland are also lining the streets and petitioning the government to stop the destruction.

Part of underground chamber found in Lismullen (Click images to enlarge)

Irish Times: New ‘monument’ found in path of M3

Irish Independent: Campaigners say new archaeological find near M3 works

Mail on Sunday: Oh no, here we go once again

Sunday Mirror: Gormley M3 blast

Sunday Tribune: Ray of Sunlight shines on disillusioned Tara protestors
Irish Times: NRA disputes new Tara monument find on M3

RTE News: Row over further site find on M3

Saturday, 23 June 2007 13:18

Campaigners seeking the re-routing of the M3 have claimed that an important archaeological find has been found lying in the path of the controversial motorway.

However this is being strongly contested by the National Roads Authority which maintains it is not a unique feature and the relevant bodies have been aware of the find for months.

The campaigning group TaraWatch says two underground structures, including passage-ways, have been identified metres from the National Monument at Lismullen, close to the Hill of Tara.

However the NRA has said the feature, known as a souterrain, has been known to the Department of the Environment and National Museum for months.

A spokesman said it was not a unique feature and would be a relatively common find.

While it is the Environment Minister’s function to declare a site a National Monument, the NRA said its view was this was not such a site.

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Site 1 is a ‘souterrain’ or underground chamber, with a large ‘cap stone’ over it.

Site 2 is part of an underground passage, with wooden ‘doors’ on both ends.

Free Summer Solstice Celebration on Hill of Tara, Wednesday to Sunday

Protest Monday

TaraWatch holding a free Summer Solstice Celebration on the Hill of Tara from Wednesday 20th June until Sunday 24th June.

It will be followed by a demonstration at the Department of the Environment, Monday 25th June beginning at 12.00 noon. The demonstration will call on the new Minister for the Environment, John Gormley (Green Party), to reverse the decision of former Minister, Dick Roche, and re-route the M3 motorway from the Hill of Tara archaeological complex, and the newly discovered national monument in Lismullen.

The main purpose of the event is to celebrate the World Monuments Fund recently putting the Hill of Tara onto the List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites.

A large number of poets are volunteering to entertain celebrants, over the course of four days. Many performers and attendees are traveling from abroad to participate.

Singer Laura Murphy will open the event on Wednesday evening, with people gathering to camp out and be present for the Thursday sunrise, on the longest day of the year.

Music on Thursday morning will begin at 4.45 am, with harpist Laoise Kelly performing until the sunrise, at approximately 6.00 am. Paul Casey O’Bheal will do invocations of poetry, followed by more music from Wilson Noble and Martin Furey.

Other performers over the course of the weeknd will include: Larry Beau (& his minstels), Twenty-One Crows, Urban Country Divide, Bela Emerson, Jimi Cullen, Christine Broe (poet), Perciphone Petticoat (UK poet), Freespirit, Rory Faithfield and The Bhoys From the County Hell (The Pogues Tribute from County Meath).

On Sunday a debate on the future of Tara will take place at 2.00 pm, followed by a historical tour of the Tara complex.

The Office of Public Works allows free camping to take place on the public land on top of the Hill every year. Fresh water is available and there will be additional toilet facilities in the car park. There is a strict ‘no alcohol or drugs’ policy.

Many celebrants will travel from Tara to the Customs House, for a demonstration on Monday at 12.00 noon outside the Department of the Environment on Monday. TaraWatch will make a submission to Minister Gormley at that time.

Organizer Heather Adams said:

“The Hill of Tara is the most magical place in Ireland to celebrate the summer solstice.

“This is a totally free festival, and all we ask is that people don’t drink alcohol and respect the site.

“This will be a great opportunity for campaigners to gather and contemplate the future of Tara.

Contact: 087-972-8603 – info@tarawatch.org

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Wednesday evening

Laura Murphy entertains the campers
 
Thursday

 Sunrise performances

- Laoise Kelly will begin playing at 4:45 am for sunrise to about 6.
- Paul Casey O’Bheal will do Invocations of poetry
- Wilson Noble
- Martin Furey

Afternoon Elemental Invocations: 

Paul Casey O’Bheal and Heather Elizabeth Adams
 
3-4 pm     Twenty-One Crows
 
5-6 pm     Martin Furey
 
6-8 pm     Urban Country Divide + Trad Session
 
8-10 pm   Bela Emerson  
 
10 pm-     Larry Beau
 
Friday
 
1-3 pm    Jimi Cullen
 
3-4         Christine Broe (poet)
 
5-6 pm    Wilson Noble
 
6-8 pm    Freespirit
 
8 pm       Perciphone Petticoat
 
8.30 pm  Paul Casey O’Bheal
 

Saturday
 
1-2 pm    Rory Faithfield
 
4-5 pm    Twenty-One Crows
 
5-6 pm    Wilson Noble
 
6-7pm     Martin Furey

8-10 pm  The Bhoys From the County Hell (The Pogues Tribute)

10pm-     Martin Furey

Sunday

2.00 pm: Discussion on future of Tara

400 pm   Historical tour of Tara complex

Monday

12.00 pm – Demonstration outside the Department of Environment, Custom’s House, Dublin. Handing in submission to Minister Gormley

Statue of Saint Patrick faces the Tara/Skryne valley, where the M3 is due to be built

Vatican is called in to Save Hill of Tara

Evening Herald
1 May 2007

by Michael Lavery

IN the latest twist in the row over the Hill of Tara/M3 motorway route the Vatican has now being urged to intervene to save the Meath site.

Environmental campaigner Vincent Salafia believes the decision on the Hill of Tara is “a deeply moral one, even leaving law and politics aside”, and is urging Pope Beledict’s Vatican to step in.

TaraWatch sent the appeal following a weekend Vatican seminar on climate change and development, which, it says, recognised climate change as an important Christian moral issue.

Now it has called on Cardinal Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, to examine the Hill of Tara issue.

“TaraWatch has appealed to the Vatican to examine the Hill of Tara and the M3 motorway issue as an extreme example of non sustainable development due to economic, environmental and social factors, the group said.

The appeal to the Cardinal also referred to the site’s “unique religious and spiritual importance”.

Celebrate

It pointed out that Meath County Council had invited Pope John Paul II to celebrate Easter Mass on the Hill of Tara the year before he died.

Mr Salafia said: “It is clear that governments, business and citizens all have a shared and active responsibility for shaping our environment, and steering development in a positive direction.

“To do this, we will have to make hard decisions now, rather than later,” he said.

Mr Salafia, in his letter to Cardinal Martino, said that Ireland has suffered from “an unfettered development frenzy that is completely developer-led and market driven, which has led not only to unprecedented urban sprawl but damage to landscapes nationwide”.

Ireland’s carbon emissions were some of the worst in the EU and Ireland would not meet its Kyoto targets, he said. “Having the moral weight of the Church behind efforts to reduce carbon emissions and create sustainable communities will have a massive effect,” he added.

The motorway will damage an area of natural scenic beauty and would impact over 30 archaeological sites in the Tara area, the Cardinal was told.

PRESS RELEASE – TARAWATCH

‘Appeal Sent to Vatican After Seminar on Climate Change and Development’

30 August 2007

TaraWatch welcomes the results of the weekend Vatican Seminar on Climate Change and Development, which has recognised climate change as an important Christian moral issue.

An appeal, for an examination of the Hill of Tara, currently threatened by the M3 motorway, was sent on Sunday to H.E. Renato Raffaele Cardinal Martino, President, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace who held the International seminar from 26-27 April 2007. He was informed of the non-sustainability of the M3, the Christian and pagan importance of Tara and that a large henge had recently been discovered in the pathway of the M3, which authorities would try and demolish very soon.

Attended by environment ministers from around the world, the seminar resulted in a strong statement from the Vatican, recognising the Christian and moral imperative of reversing global warming due to carbon and other emissions.

TaraWatch has appealed to the Vatican to examine the Hill of Tara and the M3 motorway issue as an extreme example of non-sustainable development, due to economic, environmental and social factors. They also asked that the unique religious and spiritual importance of the site be taken into consideration, pointing out that Meath County Council had invited Pope John Paul to celebrate Easter Mass on the Hill of Tara just before his untimely passing.

Vincent Salafia stated:

“It is clear that Governments, business and citizens all have a shared and active responsibility for shaping our environment, and steering development in a positive direction. To do this we will have to make some hard decisions now, rather than later. The decision about Tara is a moral deeply moral one, even leaving law and politics aside.

“While it is critical to refine the theories of sustainable development and environmental economics in terms of moral obligations, it is obvious that specific projects must be examined in detail, as case studies in non-sustainable development, and held up as examples of what not to do.”

He also quoted from an 1897 lecture by the Most Rev. John Healy to seminary students in Maynooth College:

“In the highest sense of the words, you are the heirs, and you ought to be, as it were, the official custodians, of the historic monuments of the Gael.

“It would be strange, indeed…that an Irish priest should be either ignorant of their history, or show himself indifferent to their defacement or destruction.

“No man can do more than a priest to aid in their preservation, and every sentiment of genuine patriotism, of national honour, and even of professional zeal, should move him to aid in the noble work of illustrating the history and guarding the integrity of these ancient monuments, which are at once eloquent witnesses of our vanished glories in the past, and hopeful emblems of a higher national life in the not distant future.

“Now, my young friends, of all the historic sites in Ireland, there is no other that can at all approach the Hill of Tara, either in antiquity, in historic interest, or in the variety and suggestive significance of its ancient monuments.”

Taipei Times: Vatican adds its voice to warnings on climate changeIndian Times: Respect creation, Pope tells historic Vatican climate meet
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 Photo: NUI Galway

Hill of Tara Set for Danger List -New plan to save ancient site from M3 Irish Daily Star – Tue Feb 13 2007

- Tue Feb 13 2007By Cormac Bourke

THE Ancient Hill of Tara has been nominated for inclusion on a list of the world’s 100 most endangered sites.

The World Monuments Watch has helped save 420 irreplaceable sites in 80 countries, including the ancient Buddhist temple of Preah Khan at Angkor, Cambodia, built in 1191.

Environmentalists hope inclusion on the 2008 list will boost their campaign to reroute the M3 away from the ancient County Meath fort, home of the ancient kings.

Work

They claim the site is being threatened by construction of the M3 motorway, ancillary development and neglect.

Vincent Salafia of TaraWatch said the nomination takes the campaign to halt work on the M3 to a new level internationally.

“We are extremely hopeful the Government will think twice before signing the 30-year construction and tolling contract,” he said. “The sustainable alternatives must be reviewed in light of the new data and EU rules on transport carbon emissions and climate change.”

International expert Dr Ron Hicks, of the Department of Anthropology, Ball State University, Indiana endorsed the nomination. A decision on whether to include the Hill of Tara on the list will be made in the summer.

Neglect

A decision on whether to include the Hill of Tara on the endangered sites list will be made in the summer.

Announced every two years the list is compiled to bring international attention to cultural heritage sites around the world threatened by neglect, vandalism, conflict or natural disaster.

The 2006 list included a famine era barn in Co Kildare and Irish explorer Ernest Shackelton’s Expedition Hut on Ross Island, Antartica.

The Ellis Island baggage and Dormitory Building in New York, built to accomodate immigrants trying to get into America in the early 1900s – also made the list.

HILL OF TARA Seat of kings or land of myths? (inset)

- Tara was the ancient seat of power in Ireland from where 142 kings reigned – but not to many, the history of the hill blurs the lines between history and reality. Some believe it was a dwelling place for the ancient gods, others claimed it was an entrance to the ‘Otherworld’.

- A century ago a group of Israelites believed the Ark of the Covenant was buried on the hill. Other dreamers claimed that Tara was the ancient capital of the Lost Kingdom of Atlantis – and Atlantis was Ireland.

- One legend names the Hill of Tara was the capital of the Tuatha de Danann the pre-Celtic dwellers of Ireland. Under the Celts Tara became the place from where the Kings of Ireland ruled with godly status.

- At the summit stood the Stone of Destiny and it was here that the High Kings of Ireland were crowned. Legend says that the stone had to roar three times if the chosen one was a true king.

 

DailyIndia:  Hill of Tara nominated for endangered list

Washington Times: Hill of Tara nominated for endangered list

IRELAND’S SHAME: A SUPERHIGHWAY ACROSS THE HILL OF TARA
By T.S. Kerrigan
American Reporter Correspondent
Los Angeles, California

LOS ANGELES — Just when you thought the Celtic Tiger economy had done it worst, there’s news that the Irish Government – in the name of progress, of course – is implementing a plan to build the M3 freeway through the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the high kings of Ireland.

This would seem to be the worst news to befall that lovely site since medieval times, when Irish ecclesiastics, locked in a struggle with the lay authority of the times, put a curse on the place and destroyed all secular power in the land of saints and sages until the coming of Brian Boru.

‘What’s next, a shopping center connecting the Lakes of Killarney? A strip mall in Dingle? Unprincipled people seem to be in charge of Ireland’s cultural future… .’

Will romantic Ireland be “dead and gone,” as poet W.B. Yeats contended, when that location is straddled with a four-lane toll road and a 50-acre interchange? Will this obvious playing to the whims of the Irish motorist result in yet another desecration of the values of the past?

Work has, unfortunately, already begun despite an outcry which has spread beyond the borders of the country. William Harding, Professor of Archeology at Edinburgh University, has claimed that “it is an act of cultural vandalism as flagrant as ripping a knife through a Rembrandt painting.” Government owned forests in Rath Lugh are being systematically decimated as part of the project.

Poorly supervised digging at nearby Baronstown has produced bones in various and random parts of that area, with no attempt to mark or number these finds. At Roestown, a complex of beehive souterrains (Bronze Age condominiums) has been removed by workers, promptinmg its nomination by the respected World Monuments Fund to the lost of 100 Most Endangered Sites.

One of these ancient dwelling spaces in Roestown has been removed to build a superhighway across the revered Hill of Tara, and this one is to be moved.
Photo: Tara Watch

Destruction is also taking place at Collierstown, even before the Public-Private Partnership has entered into a contract to build the M3 Highway. The bureaucrats of the nation seem to be in a great hurry to complete the planned highway before public opposition grows too strong.

The insensitivity of the government to the beauties of the west of Ireland has been apparent before in places like Bantry Bay and Bellanboy, but this surely is its most momentous outrage in recent years. What’s next, a shopping center connecting the Lakes of Killarney? A strip mall in Dingle? The possibilities are only limited by the imaginations of the unprincipled people who seem to be in charge of the country’s cultural future.

 These Collierstown sites may have held Ireland’s earliest Christians, dating to 400 A.D.
Photo:Tara Watch
 

Those who are not indifferent to the destruction of Irish culture are being advised to write to the Taioseach, Bertie Ahern, to Dick Roche, the Minister for the Environment, and Sean Haughey, Chairman of the Environmental Committee of the Irish Dail.

Tourism being one of Ireland’s major industries, those who oppose the project want to enlist the voices of people conscious of their Irish heritage in places like the United States and Australia.

It has also been recommended for dissenters to this project write to the major Irish newspapers. Further information is available through the Global Arts Collective and a useful blog, Tara Watch. A quick response is needed if these geographical treasures of Ireland are to be preserved.

You can reach AR Correspondent T.S. Kerrigan at scottroado0@earthlink.net

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