Kevin doesn't know the
facts
Your correspondent Kevin Myers nearly sounds like a
politician in his school-boyish article "Bring on the
JCBs at Tara".
When the argument is being lost, introduce ill-informed
prejudice lacking in facts to distract. Reason and proper
information are not just far down the list, they are not
there at all.
The M3 motorway is not a "mile away from Tara". As
eminent archaeologists have found, the recent findings
there indicate that the area it is to go over and destroy
is part of the original Tara complex.
With reference to "rotting post holes of settlements that
vanished 3000 years ago", they haven't vanished - they
have not even been surveyed in many instances.
Mr. Myers doesn't even know that there was - and is - an
alternative route to this unnecessary madness which was
"blocked out by various devices" and at much reduced
cost. This is because it gives good copy.
But it is very bad and cheap journalism which is grossly
misleading to the ordinary public even, if for
credibility, it is couched in words they may not
understand, to indicate that he is erudite and knows what
he is talking about - which he doesn't. There is nothing
funny about the article either, even if it is meant to be
some sort of crass joke.
Garrett Hooper,
Clarinda Park,
Dun Laoire.
© The Irish Independent, 1st. October 2007.
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Unleash the JCBs and finish off the Tara motorway
pronto.
The
rest of us live in the real world.
How heartening to read Kevin Myers' comments.
Celebs should go back to La La Land.
M3
row . . .
Opinions on Tara are short-sighted.
Myers has no respect for history.
Celebs
are right to highlight Tara.
