Hill of Tara / M3 Motorway – Activists Site
Baron Wince, the M3 and the lords of incompetence
Sunday Tribune, 15 August 2009
Opinion – By David Kenny
Tenner for the first person who guesses what ‘Carbon Wine’, ‘Brace In Now!’ and ‘Bare Cow Inn’ have in common. My travelling companions didn’t make the connection. One threatened to connect his fist with my gob if I didn’t [...]
PRESS RELEASE – TARAWATCH – 9 July 2009
Responses to Parliamentary Questions by Ministers for Environment, Transport and Finance “Totally Unacceptable”
Responses to a series of 30 Parliamentary Questions (PQs), submitted to Ministers for the Environment, Transport and Finance, by Labour and Sinn Fein, have been made. The PQs, relating to the Hill of Tara and the [...]
Maureen O’Sullivan TD (Ind) takes Parliamentary Questions from Vincent Salafia of TaraWatch, with Aengus O Snodaigh (left) and Martin Ferris (Sinn Fein) behind
PRESS RELEASE – TARAWATCH – 1 July 2009
‘Opposition TDs and Senators Pledge to Challenge Government Over M3 Motorway’
A delegation of approximately 30 TaraWatch members met with Opposition TDs and Senators at the Kildare [...]
Group calls for Gormley resignation
MICHAEL MCHALE
The Irish Times – Breaking News – Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Governement John Gormley must resign due to his failure to protect Irish heritage sites, representatives of the Save Tara campaign have said.
Members of TaraWatch, the organisation which runs the campaign, held a protest [...]
CITY OF CHICAGO RESOLUTION
SAVE TARA VALLEY
28 March 2008
A resolution of the Mayor of Chicago and the City Council of Chicago, Illinois USA, beseeching the Government of Ireland, and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, to reconsider and reverse past decisions and halt the destruction of Ireland’s most sacred and ancient monuments at the Valley of [...]
Action brought on 14 September 2007 – Commission of the European Communities v Ireland
(Case C-427/07)
Parties
Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: D. Recchia and D. Lawunmi, Agents)
Defendant: Ireland
The applicant claims that the Court should:
declare that by failing to adopt, in conformity with Article 2(1) and Article 4 paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) of [...]
New tarapixie video – Happenings and actions from Rath Lugh
Irish Times: ‘M3 motorway protesters claim to have entered tunnel under road’
Irish Times: ‘Tara Protesters in for Long Haul’
Irish Independent: €30m bill for Tara digs as M3 battle heats up
Dispute over effects of M3 work
Irish Times – Tuesday, March 11, 2008
ADAM HARVEY
CONSTRUCTION WORK on the M3 [...]
LISTEN TO BBC TARA DOCUMENTARY, AIRED 01 MARCH 2008
RTE Radio One: Today With Pat Kenny – Thur 6 March
The Herald (Scotland): The Celtic Tiger may yet turn on its master
Derry Journal: Destruction of Tara a “ruthless desecration”, says Heaney
Belfast Telegraph: Heaney vents his poetic outrage at sacrilege of Tara
The Times (UK): Heaney laments loss of [...]
Archaeologists on the National Monument Discovery at the M3 Lismullin site. Alan Betson/Irish Times
Irish Times – Breaking News: New High Court action over Tara ruins
Breakingnews.ie: Activists make court bid to stop M3 (audio)
Press Association: Fresh bid to stop motorway
Daily Mail: High Court challenge to Gormley on M3 site
Irish Examiner: High Court action [...]
Archaeology magazine, a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America, has selected the 10 most important archaeological discoveries in 2007, published in its January/February 2008 issue.
Lismullin Henge • Gabhra Valley, Ireland
by Jarrett A. Lobell, Archaeology Magazine
Early last year, archaeologists working on the route of a controversial highway near the village of Lismullin, Ireland, stumbled across [...]