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As anyone who listens to The Witching Hour will know, we are supporting the Save Tara campaign. This whole thing has been subject to something of a media blackout in recent months, but what you need to know is this:
- the Irish government has, in its infinite unwisdom, approving the routing of the new M3 motorway straight through one of its oldest monuments, the site of Tara and the Gabhra Valley, seat of the ancient Irish kings. Archeological evidence will be permanently destroyed.
- there are alternatives to this route which would prove considerably cheaper and one has to question why this expensive and ill-considered option has been put through (fill in your own blanks).
- no one is against the road per se, but they question its location.
If you want to know more, visit:
http://www.tarawatch.org/
or
http://www.savetara.com
Last night we attended a Tara benefit gig in the Assembly Rooms, which raised over £800 for the campaign. There are people out there now - our friend Carmel amongst them - putting themselves in front of diggers and halting the road. The Brits are used to road protests; the Irish are not - they haven't had to be, but now they're learning fast.
Both organisations are running email campaigns and they are particularly appealing to people of Irish-American descent - the more international outcry that comes out of this, the better. An election does not seem to have made any significant difference to governmental opinion. Let's see what shame can do, given that this was, I am sure, intended to be quietly passed through as a fait accompli.
- the Irish government has, in its infinite unwisdom, approving the routing of the new M3 motorway straight through one of its oldest monuments, the site of Tara and the Gabhra Valley, seat of the ancient Irish kings. Archeological evidence will be permanently destroyed.
- there are alternatives to this route which would prove considerably cheaper and one has to question why this expensive and ill-considered option has been put through (fill in your own blanks).
- no one is against the road per se, but they question its location.
If you want to know more, visit:
http://www.tarawatch.org/
or
http://www.savetara.com
Last night we attended a Tara benefit gig in the Assembly Rooms, which raised over £800 for the campaign. There are people out there now - our friend Carmel amongst them - putting themselves in front of diggers and halting the road. The Brits are used to road protests; the Irish are not - they haven't had to be, but now they're learning fast.
Both organisations are running email campaigns and they are particularly appealing to people of Irish-American descent - the more international outcry that comes out of this, the better. An election does not seem to have made any significant difference to governmental opinion. Let's see what shame can do, given that this was, I am sure, intended to be quietly passed through as a fait accompli.
