Cost of NRA press
advert
Dear sir - The estimated cost of the full-page advert the
NRA took in Sunday, national and regional papers is
roughly €120,000, plus costs to designers and
spin-doctors. Is it not a scandal and disgrace that money
has been wasted in such a way when there are people lying
on trolleys in Dublin hospitals?
How much more of our money is it willing to waste before
they admit that routing the M3 toll road through the Tara
Skryne valley is wrong?
It makes points in its advert that the protesters have no
objection to... we all know a new road is needed. In
fact, a new bypass would already be in place around
Dunshaughlin by now and that truck crash last week need
never happened. Why isn't the new road in place?
It was approved in 1999 and should have been started
immediately. Then it was linked to the single-contract
toll road, and we are still waiting in traffic jams.
Politicians are trying to blame road deaths on the
protesters when their own mismanagement for many years is
the real culprit.
Colr. Tommy Reilly's remark about "pots and pans" may
return to haunt him.
This road will disturb the bones of our ancestors. It is
equivalent to putting it through the graveyard of your
local church. Are the grave goods of the Ancient Celts no
more than "pots and pans"?
Yours sincerely,
STEPHEN HOBBS,
Hernes Cottage,
Ethelstown,
Kells.
© The Meath Chronicle, 25th. December, 2004.
